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Edited by the Secretary 



amherst, mass. 

Printed for the Class 

1905 






Carpenter & Morehouse, Printers, Amherst, Mass. 




Edward Hitchcock. 
Our President, 1S51 — 1854. 




William A. Stearns. 

Our President, 1854 — 1855. 

[From the photograph from which his portrait was painted in 1876 
by N. B. Kittells of New York, and presented to the College Library 
by the Class of 1855.] 



Greetiiuj- 



My Dear Classmates : — 

The work which you assigned to me on the 27th of June was 
undertaken cheerfully, and it has been performed with jjleasure. 
I have always taken a deep interest in the career of every mem- 
ber of the class from the day of graduation until the present 
time, and have kept a record in my class book of such facts as 
have from time to time come to my knowledge. Not only that, 
but I have also written hundreds of letters in my endeavor to 
keep in touch with all, even those who for a time were num- 
bered with us but did not graduate. Some may have regarded 
these persistent appeals as unwelcome calls, but most of the 
fellows have responded with a willing mind. Only one alum- 
nus and one non-graduate whose address could be ascertained, 
has failed, through natural inertia or indifference, to make any 
response to these repeated tokens of fraternal interest. 

This Record may be considered as a supplement to the 
Qitarter-cenfeimia/ Record oi ihe c\3.ss, published in 1880. For 
a complete sketch of each life it will be necessary to consult 
the former record. A few statistics and a brief summary of 
facts recorded in that book are repeated in this. Such addi- 
tional facts as members have been willing: to ffive, or I have 
been able to obtain, will serve to make the volume a reasonably 
complete account of the work of the class during the past fifty 
3'ears. 

We have no inclination to boastfubiess, but the simple fact 
may be stated that the class of '55 was one of the largest in 
number and highest in scholarship that graduated at Amherst 
previous to the year 1862. Only the classes of '31 and '39 
exceeded ours in number, the former by four and the latter by 
two, while none exceeded our number of thirty-two elected to 
membership in Phi Beta Kappa. 



Surely in no class has there been closer fellowship, more 
manly, upright character and greater loyalty to truth and duty. 
It is a notable fact that seventeen of our number made a public 
profession of faith while in college, and that nearly every grad- 
uate has since been active in Christian work. We have no em- 
bezzler, no political " boss," no one who has become rich by 
" graft," but men of honest purpose and faithful work. We 
may not have realized the dream of youthful ambition, but we 
have tried to do our duty in the places to which Providence 
assigned us. 

We tell our personal story, not to the outside world, but to 
one another, as in a family circle, for our mutual comfort and 
encouragement, and because of our common interest in every 
one who has been so intimately connected with us in college 
life. The pictures, also, we give to each other, as brothers ex- 
change photographs, which may be preserved as souvenirs and 
valued by children and personal friends. 

Everyone will look with pleasure on the familiar features of 
our college presidents, Hitchcock, the scientist, and Stearns, 
the Christian gentleman and scholar, both beloved and revered 
by us all. 

The changes which have been made in the external appear- 
ance of our Alma Mater will be noted by contrasting the pic- 
tures of Amherst college in 1855 and in 1905. The former 
and the picture of President Hitchcock are inserted by favor 
of the printers, Messrs. Carpenter & Morehouse. 

Trusting that the entire work, including the Historical Sup- 
plement, will meet the unanimous approval of the surviving 
members of '55, I remain, as ever, 

Yours cordially and faithfully, 

W. L. Montague, 

Secretary of '55. 
Amherst, Mass., Aug. 28, 1905. 



1855— 1905 



IlBioQrapbical IRccorb 



CLASS OF 1855. 



Samuel Mayes Arnell was born in Maury county, Tenn., 
May 3, 1833. He was a member of the college two terms,- 
1852 — 1853, but took a special course with Tutor Rowland. 
He studied law and practiced his profession in Columbia, Tenn., 
till his death in 1901. Though in Amherst only a few months,, 
he said of the college : " She gave me vastly more than train- 
ing ; she filled me with New England ideas," ideas which he 
has made to live where he has lived. Many of them were in- 
corporated by him in the statutes which made Tennessee a free 
commonwealth. He was a member of the Constitutional Con- 
vention of Tennessee in 1865 ; member of the Legislature, 
1865 — 1866; member of the U. S. Congress, 39th, 40th and 41st. 

He married, Nov. 15, 1855, Cornelia C, Orton of Columbia, 
Tenn. They had eight children. 

David Cornelius Ayres was born in Granby, Jan. 27, 1833. 
He left Amherst, " took dismission," at the close of Sophomore 
year, and studied medicine at Ann Arbor, Mich., but did not 
graduate ; engaged in teaching and the practice of medicine at 
Minneapolis, Minn., and in keeping a drug store at Washing- 
ton Heights, N. Y. Entering the army as hospital steward, he 




RuFus Chandler Bailey. 



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was located at Nashville, Tenn. His friends have heard noth- 
ing from him since the day of Lee's surrender. They suppose 
that " he went west and died." 

He married, April, 1859, Julia Kellogg of South Hadley,. 
Mass. His wife and only child died in April, 1865. 

Rufus Chandler Bailey, born in Auburn, Me., July 28, 
1833, entered the scientific department in 1854. After grad- 
uating, he was engaged in civil engineering until 1858 ; then 
studied law until i860, meanwhile teaching two terms, and 
was admitted to the bar, Aug. 18, i860. He practiced his 
profession in Rockford, 111., from i860 to Aug. 15, 1873, when 
he was appointed judge of Winnebago county, 111., a position 
which he still holds, residing in Rockford. 

He married, Oct. 5, 1885, Emma L. Trufant, who passed 
away at their home in Rockford, 111., April 11, 1905, soon after 
their return from California, where she had been for the win- 
ter, in the hope of benefit to her health. 

Charles Baker, born in Phillipston, Mass., in July, 1828,. 
left college at the end of the first term of Freshman year, and 
engaged in the lumber business in Worcester, Mass. He mar- 
ried. Sept, I, 1863, Elentheria Manley of Hardwick, Mass., 
and had six children. The youngest son died, Dec. 14, 1895. 
Mr. Baker died of heart disease, Sept. 18, 1896. His widow 
still resides in Worcester. 

John Dempster Bell, born in Weedsport, N. Y., Dec. 27, 
1 83 1, was in Genesee college three years, and entered Am- 
herst in 1854, second term of Junior year. After graduation 
he taught school one year in Owego, N. Y., then studied the- 
ology and became a Methodist minister, and preached in 
various places, east and west, from 1857 to 1872. From 1873 
to 1875 he was a Presbyterian home missionary in Canon City,. 



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Col., and superintendent of schools for Fremont county, 
and in 1877 and 1878 he was a preacher in Pueblo, Col. Com- 
pelled by chronic bronchitis to retire permanently from the 
ministry, he devoted the rest of his life to literary pursuits, re- 
siding in Los Angeles, Cal., until 1884, and in Denver, Colo., 
until his death from bronchial consumption, Nov. 24, 1886. 

He was the author of A Man, The Great SligJited Fortune, 
The Edson Papers and Suggestions for a Restless Age. He also 
edited The National New Yorker, Canandaigua. N. Y., 1855 
and 1856, and the Milford {MdLSS.) Jour7ial in 1865 and 1866. 

He was thrice married. The third wife, Priscilla T. Pol- 
lock, with two of his four children, survived him. 

Eli Gilbert Bennett, born at Georgetown, Conn., Feb. 2, 
1831, entered Amherst in 185 1. After graduating, he was en- 
gaged as a clerk for his father's firm until i860, when he started 
in business as a merchant on his own account. In 1870 he 
built a store 70x24 feet, on the site of the old red store, and 
continued in business there till August, 1881, when he removed 
to Brooklyn, N. Y., and became bookkeeper for the Gilbert & 
Bennett Manufacturing Co. (iron wire, etc.), of New York city. 
He remained there till 1903, when he retired. He has a wife, 
Mary Esther Birchard of Milton, Conn., whom he married May 
4, 1859, and five children, all living, three married, and four 
grandchildren. He is orthodox in religious belief, and Repub- 
lican in politics. 

Edwin Cone Bissell was born at Schoharie, N. Y., March 
2, 1832. After teaching one year at Williston seminary, he en- 
tered Union Theological seminary, and graduated there in 
1859. During his pastorate at Westhampton, Mass., 1859 — 
1864, he enlisted in the 5 2d regiment, Mass. Vols., raised a 
company of ninety men in Westhampton and vicinity, was com- 




Eli Gilbert Benneti. 




Edwin Cone Bissell. 



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missioned captain of Co. K, and served one year (1862 — 1863) 
in Louisiana, under Gen. Banks, taking part in tlie expedition 
tliat resulted in the capture of Port Hudson. J'rom 1864 to 
1869 he was pastor of the Green street Congregational church 
in San Francisco, including ten months' service as acting pas- 
tor in Honolulu, H. I.; pastor at Winchester, Mass., two 
years, and missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. in Gratz, Austria, 
1874 — 1879. After a year of special study in Leipsic, Germany, 
he entered upon his duties as professor of Hebrew and Old 
Testament Exegesis in Hartford Theological seminary, Sept. 
9, 188 E. " His inaugural address was a most scholarly pres- 
entation of the question of the authorship of the early Hebrew 
Scriptures. For depth, clearness and vigor of thought, and 
for an earnest presentation of a most profound theme, it elicited 
the most hearty praise." After eleven years of efficient service 
he accepted a call to the McCormick Theological seminary, 
Chicago, 111., as professor of Old Testament Exegesis and 
Literature, which position he held until his death from typhoid 
pneumonia, April 10, 1894. 

" Dr. Bissell was a thorough student, and was an authority 
on the subjects of which he treated." He was associate editor 
of The Pacific two years. His published works include a 
Practical Hebrew Grammar, The Historic Origin of the Bible. 
The Apocrypha (in Lange's Series of Commentaries), The Pen- 
tateuch, its Origin and Structure, Biblical Antiquities, and 
Genesis in Colors. He received the degree of D.U. from Am- 
herst college in 1874, and LL.D. from Lake Forest university 
in 1893. His wife, Emily Pomeroy of Somers, Conn., whom 
he married Sept. 6, 1859, is living in her own house, 180 
Marion street, Springfield, Mass. 



Joseph Boardman, born at Amesbury, Mass., June i8, 
1833, taught two years before entering Andover Theological 
seminary, where he graduated in i860. He has since been 
pastor in various churches in Maine, Massachusetts, New 
Hampshire and Vermont. His longest pastorate was in 
Barnet, Vt. His last pastorate was at Roxbury, Vt., where 
his wife, Mary M. Withington of Newbury, Mass., died May 
II, 1902. Mr. Boardman retired from pastoral work in Jan- 
uary, 1904, and has since resided with his eldest daughter 
(Mary), Mrs. Alfred Stanley, in Plymouth, N. H. He has pub- 
lished Proportionate Giving. Five of his eight children are 
living. Anna is unmarried. William J. graduated at Amherst 
in 1895, has been business manager of 2 he Ct-itic, and is now 
advertising agent for a firm in Philadelphia. Richard gradu- 
ated from Dartmouth in 1897, and is now member of a law 
firm in Jersey City, N. J. His fourth son, Philip Eliot, lived 
only nine weeks. His fifth son, Joseph, Jr., born Jan. 15, 
1885, is now a Junior in Brown university. 

Albert Henry Bridgman, born in Belchertown, Mass., 
Jan. 6, 1832. studied law, and practiced in Maysville, Iowa, 
from April, 1857, until Aug. 14, 1862, when he enlisted in Co. 
H, 32d Iowa infantry, served with the " Army of the Tennes- 
see " in the valley of the Mississippi, and was mustered out of 
the U. S. service July 21, 1865. 

With impaired health he engaged for a time in teaching and 
farming, but since 1873 has been a railway postal clerk, with 
residence at Pekin, 111., where his beloved wife, Josephine 
Hartness of New York city, whom he married Feb. 10, 1859, 
died Oct. 10, 1894. His ninth child, Laura Josephine, was 
born May 12, 1881. He has five children living, all in good 
health and prospering, also nine grandchildren, all away from 
him, so that he is quite alone in the world. 




Albert Henry Bridgman. 



He has been a frequent contributor to newspapers, and was 
for a time editor of the Paxton (111.) Record. 

His youngest daughter is a fine elocutionist, very popular as 
a public reader. His son, Arthur, has been engaged in the 
Y. M. C. A. work during the past fifteen years, and is now 
general field secretary for the states of North and South Caro- 
lina. 

Francis Frederick Brown was born at Sudbury, Mass., 
Aug. 12, 1834. After graduation, he engaged in teaching for 
three years, then studied medicine and graduated at the Berk- 
shire Medical school in 1862. After -serving as assistant sur- 
geon in the 48th Mass. V. M. at Baton Rouge and Port Hud- 
son, nine months, he settled as a practicing physician in Read- 
ing, Mass., where he continued in the active work of his pro- 
fession until his death from pneumonia, Jan. 13, 1890. 

He married, June 7, 1865, Emma M. Clapp of Dorchester, 
Mass., who is still living at their former home, 22 Lowell street, 
Reading. Two daughters reside at home with her. One, 
Bertha L., is librarian of the Reading public library. The 
other, Helen A., is a teacher of German and music — piano. 
The eldest daughter, Mabel F., is the wife of Dr. S. H. Parks, 
a practicing physician in Readin'g. Her son, Clarence C, 
graduated at Mass. Institute of Technology, is with the Bell 
Telephone Co. in Philadelphia, is married, and resides in Ger- 
mantown, Pa. 

Samuel Edward Brown was born in Owego, N. Y., Nov. 
26, 1833. He was admitted to the bar in his native town and 
practiced there one year (1857 — 1858), then removed to Daven- 
port, Iowa, where he had an extensive and lucrative practice. 

In 1882 he removed to New York city, where he was the 
attorney of the Long Island R. R. Co. until his death from 
cancer of the throat, at Hempstead, L. I., Feb. 17, 1891. 




Francis Frederick Brown. 



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He was married, Aug. 17, 1859, to Mary L. Davis of Owego, 
N. Y., who witli six of their eight children survived him. Mrs. 
Brown died Nov. i, 1901. Four of the children are still living. 
Pierre M., a graduate of the New York Law school ; Albert W. 
and Arthur W,, graduates of Cornell university. Albert is 
with Pierre, (P. O. address 192 Broadway, New York), Arthur 
is a lieutenant in the regular army, and Anna W. resides at 31 
West Front street, Owego, Tioga county, N. Y. 

Charles Wentworth Buck, born at Hamden, Me., Aug. 19, 
1833, engaged for a time in teaching, then studied law in Bos- 
ton, and practiced in St. Louis, Mo., one year, in connection 
with his brother. In September, i860, he left the practice of 
law and studied theology, graduating in 1862 at the Divinity 
school in Meadville, Pa. After supplying the Unitarian church 
in Plymouth, Mass., he was settled as pastor in Fall River, 
Mass., from December, 1863, to June, 1868, and Portland, 
Me., Second Unitarian society, December, 1868, to December, 
1879. I" 1880, "his pulpit voice having quite given out," he 
removed to Leadville, Colo., to engage in business ; was super- 
intendent of mines, 1880 — 1882, then returned to Massachusetts, 
and since that time has been proof reader at the University 
Press, Cambridge, Mass. Residence, 8 Mason street. 

He was married, Dec. 29, 1863, to Mary E. Stearns of 
Cambridge, Mass., and has had six children, four of whom are 
living, unmarried. 

John Curtis Caldwell, born at Lowell, Vt., April 17, 1833, 
was principal of Washington academy, East Machias, Me., 
from 1855 to 1861, when he was commissioned colonel of the 
nth Maine infantry, was promoted to brigadier general, ist 
brigade, ist division, 2d army corps, April 28, 1862, and 
brevetted major general in 1864. He participated in twenty- 



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five battles, including Fredericksburg, in which he was slightly 
wounded, Antietam and Gettysburg. He was one of the guard 
of honor to escort the body of President Lincoln to Springfield, 
111.; was president of the military commission in Washington, 
D. C, 1864 to 1866 ; admitted to the bar in Ellsworth, Me., in 
1866 ; was adjutant general for the state of Maine from 1867 
to 1869, then consul at Valparaiso, Chili, 1869 to 1874, and 
U. S. Minister at Montevidio, Uruguay, from 1874 to 1882. 
Returning to the States in 1882, he engaged in the practice of 
law in Topeka, Kan., from 1882 to 1885 ; was chairman of 
Kansas State board of pardons, 1885 to 1893 ; secretary, 1895 
to 1897, and has been consul at San Jose, Costa Rica, since 
1897. 

He married. May 15, 1857, Martha H. Foster of East Ma- 
chias, Me. Of their eight children only three are living. 

Rufus Choate, Jr., born in Salem, Mass., May 14, 1834, 
studied law in the office of his father, was admitted to the bar 
in 1858, and practiced his profession in Boston with success 
until 1861, when he was commissioned second lieutenant in the 
2d Mass. Vol. infantry. May 28. With his regiment, the first 
in the country organized " for three years or the war," he par- 
ticipated in several engagements, including that of Cedar 
Mountain, where he was assisted to the field from a sick bed, 
and that of Antietam, After the latter he was promoted to a 
captaincy, his commission bearing the date of the battle, Sept. 
17, 1862. Repeated and violent attacks of neuralgia, aggra- 
vated by hardship and exposure, compelled him to resign his 
commission, Oct. 31, 1862. From that time his sufferings, of 
great severity, were borne with unfailing fortitude until his 
death from softening of the brain, at Dorchester, Mass., Jan. 
15, 1866. 




RuFUS Choate, Jr. 

In 1S64. 




John Jay Colton. 



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James Thornton Cobb, born at Amherst, Mass., Dec. 15,- 
1833, was a member of the class seven terms (1851 — 1853). 
Leaving at the end of the first term Junior year, he graduated 
at Dartmouth college in 1855, was for a time a broker in Bos- 
ton, then a teacher in Prescott, Wis., and afterwards (1875) 
editor of paper (gentile) in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dartmouth 
authorities report that he is still living in the same city, where 
he is a journalist. The City Recorder of Salt Lake City gives his 
residence at 137 Third street, but several letters to that address 
have not been answered nor returned. 

John Jay Colton, born in Georgia, Vt., May 12, 1S30, was 
engaged in teaching from 1855 to 1864, when he became pay- 
master's clerk in the army, and later paymaster, stationed in 
Philadelphia. Mustered out of the service in 1865, he turned 
his attention to the study of medicine, and graduated at the 
University of Pennsylvania, M. D., in 1869. During a part of 
this time, and until 187 i, he made use of nitrous oxide gas in 
surgical and dental operations in more than 8,000 cases, the 
teeth being extracted by a dentist. From 1872 to 1875 ^^ ^^'^^ 
in the drug business in Boston, and since that time has been 
practicing medicine at Lowell, Mass., at 49 Varnum avenue. 

He is the author of a book, Physiological Action of Nitrous 
Oxide Gas. He was on the school board of Lowell four years, 
city physician and member of the board of health three years, 
and civil service examiner for the city of Lowell twenty years. 
His wife. Czarina Currier Varnum of Dracut, Mass., to whom 
he was married Nov. 24, 1856, and two daughters are still liv- 
ing. The daughters are both happily married, one living in 
North Adams, with one daughter sixteen years of age ; the 
other settled near them and has two children, all well and 
happy. "The Lord has been good to me and mine." 



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Charles Converse, of New Orleans, La., born January, 1835, 
died at Amherst, Jan. 9, 1853. 

Oliver Wade Cooke, born in Brooklyn, Pa., June 27, 1833, 
entered college January, 1852, and left college at the end of 
the first term Junior year. He engaged in teaching seven 
years, four years in Mt. Retirement seminary, Deckertown, 
(now Sussex), N. J. (where he prepared for college), and three 
years as principal of a private school, which was closed De- 
cember, 1861, on account of the war. He then went to Wash- 
ington, D. C, and was employed in the U. S. Treasury from 
April, 1862, to November, 1866. 

He was auditor of traffic and auditor of the passenger traffic, 
Erie Railway Co., New York city (residing in Passaic, N. J.), 
November, 1872, to Dec. 31, 1885 ; auditor of the Stonington 
Steamship Co., 1886 to July i, 1898, also of the New York, 
Providence and Boston R. R., 1887 until the absorption of the 
company by the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Since March, 1899, 
he has been in the real estate and insurance business, room 9, 
Park block, Newton, N. J. 

His wife, Mary C. Hayne, whom he married Oct. 5, 1858, 
died March 23, 1900. His son is with the American Tobacco 
Co. in New York city, married, but without children. 

Micah Sampson Croswell was born at Farmington Falls, 
Me., July 20, 1833. After taking the first part of the course in 
Waterville (Me.) college, he entered Amherst, January, 1855. 
Having been variously employed in teaching, mercantile busi- 
ness, fishing for health, and agent for a publishing house, he 
commenced the study of theology in Chicago seminary in 1861, 
but left it in 1862 to enter the army ; served as first lieutenant, 
commissary of subsistence, with the rank of captain, and later 
chief commissary of the district of the Frontier, Department of 



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Arkansas, headquarters at Fort Smith, Ark., where he was 
mustered out of the service in August, 1866, holding then the rank 
of brevet Heutenant colonel. He then returned to Chicago, com- 
pleted his course at the seminary, was ordained at Emporia,^ 
Kan., and later served as pastor or supply of various churches 
in California, Illinois, Iowa and Arkansas till 1890. From 
1890 to 1893 he resided in Chicago, then removed to Los An- 
geles, Cal., where he was manager of the Croswell Oil Co., 
1895 — 1901. Since that time he has been managing a 30-acre 
orange grove, Redlands, Cal., and developing a ranch at Cros- 
well Springs, Los Angeles county. He has written for papers, 
and an article in the Overland Alonthly on San Diego and Her 
Gold Alines. 

His wife, Mary Emma Parsons of Milwaukee, Wis., to whom 
he was married Sept. 26, 1865, is still living, and general health 
improved. She resides at 1922 Darien place, Los Angeles, 
Cal,, but for the sake of his health Mr. Croswell spends a large 
part of his time at Croswell Springs, Los Angeles county, 85 
miles northeast of the city, 2500 feet elevation, no fog, a very 
dry atmosphere, an antidote to inflammation of the mucous 
membrane. He has just completed, Jan. 9, 1905, the largest 
shipment of finest early oranges ever sent from Redlands. 

Charles Harris Crowell, born in Windham, N. H., Jan. 
18, 1830, left college in the third term of Freshman year, 
and engaged in teaching in Alton, 111., 1856 — 1867, was super- 
intendent of public schools in Grass Valley, Cal., 1870 — 1878, 
then for two years in Eureka, Nev. During the last seven 
years of his life he taught in the public schools of San Fran- 
cisco, Cal., where he died, April 12, 1900, " a popular and 
efificient teacher and a good disciplinarian." 




George Denison. 



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He married, Jan. i, 1856, Aurelia Ann Taylor of London- 
derry, N. H. She is living at 143 Alpine street, San Francisco. 
Three of their four children are also living, two of them with 
her, and the youngest daughter, Mrs. Fannie McCoy, near 
»them. 

James Wilson Crowell was born in Londonderry, N. H., 
Aug. 14, 1830, entered college with the class in 185 1, left at 
the end of the first term Senior year, and died at home July 20, 
1855- 

William Henry Darling was born at Warsaw, N. Y., June 
ig, 1835, entered college the third term of Freshman year, 
made a brilliant record as a student and scholar, and died at 
Amherst Dec. 5, 1853. 

Francis W. Davis, of Nashua, N. H., entered the scientific 
department at Amherst in 1854. and left college before the end 
of the year : no other record and no information obtainable. 
Town clerk "can find nothing concerning the family" in 
Nashua, N. H. 

George Denison, born at Hartland, Vt., Nov. 24, 183 1, 
came to Amherst from Vermont university in the summer of 
1854, was principal of Sherbrooke academy (C. E.) one 3'ear, 
then studied law and was admitted to the bar of the state of 
New York, Dec. 8, 1857. 

Early in 1858 he removed to St. Louis, Mo., was admitted to 
the bar there in February, and practiced his profession in that 
city through life. From 1867 to 1869, and again from 1877 to 
188 1, he was judge of the police court in that city, and from 
1866 until his death treasurer of the St. Louis Law Library 
association. In the war he was a corporal in the 7th regiment, 
■Missouri infantry, from 1862 to 1865. This regiment was 




Hasket Derby. 



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wholly employed in home guard duty. From 1864 he was a 
member of the First Congregational church in St. Louis, and 
was always active and influential in promoting the interests of 
that denomination in the city. He died of apoplexy in St. 
Louis, Mo., Dec. 3, 1896. 

His wife, Emma A. Webster of Godfrey, 111., (sister of class- 
mate Webster), whom he married Feb. 3, 1864, and their five 
children survived him. She is now living at 338 East 57th 
street, Chicago, 111., with her only daughter, Helen A. (unmar- 
ried), a graduate of Monticello seminary, Godfrey, 111., in 1893, 
who is kindergarten director in the public schools of Chicago. 
The oldest son, Henry W., a graduate of St. Johnsbury, Vt., 
academy, and a student three years in Illinois college, a lawyer 
by profession, died in October, 1899. Robert C, a graduate 
of Amherst in 1889, is pastor of the Congregational church in 
Janesville, Wis. George B. is also pastor of the Congregational 
church in Cando, N. Dak., for tvv'o years a student at Oberlin 
college and a graduate of Chicago Theological seminary in 
1901. B. Webster, two years at Drury academy and one year 
at Beloit, is in journalism in New York city. 

Basket Derby was born in Boston, June 29, 1835. After 
graduation, he entered the Harvard Medical school, and re- 
ceived the degree of M. D. in 1858, having passed the last year 
in the Massachusetts General Hospital as house surgeon. His 
studies were continued in Europe, in the University of Vienna, 
in Berlin, Utrecht, London and Paris until November, 1861, 
when he returned and commenced practice in Boston as an 
oculist. By applying to practice some new discoveries that 
had recently been made in Germany in the methods of treat- 
ment of the eye, he at once took a place in the front rank of 
the oculists of America, a position which he has continued to 



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hold, meeting with success even beyond his most sanguine ex- 
pectations. 

During 1865 to 1868 he made three journeys to Europe, for 
the purpose of attending the annual meetings of the society of 
German oculists. In 1867 he was appointed university lec- 
turer on ophthalmology in Harvard Medical school, 1867 — 187 1. 
He has published a translation of lectures by Von Graeffe on 
Amblyopia and Ainaurosis, and a lecture on The Modern Opera- 
tion for Cataract, also various articles in the Boston Medical 
a^id Stirgical Journal. In 1904 he edited and published Zi? 
I^orestier's Relation, a recently discovered manuscript, Auto- 
biography and Voyages of Francois Le Forestier. 

He was appointed trustee of the children's institutions de- 
partment of Boston in 1902. In vacations he has occasionally 
visited Europe. The years have come and gone, and he is 
still engaged in the active practice of his profession. When he 
settled in life his " adventures ceased ; it was as in the old 
novels, 'They were married and lived happily ever afterward.' " 

He married, Oct. 15, 1868, Sarah Mason of Boston. They 
have seven children, of whom six are living. The daughter 
(unmarried) lives at home. The eldest son is married and 
settled in Boston as an oculist. The second is practicing law 
in Honolulu, the third is in the office of a large manufactur- 
ing company in New York, a fourth is in the law school at 
Cambridge, and the youngest is abroad, having just graduated 
at Harvard. Three of the others also graduated from Har- 
vard. 

William Eastman Dickinson, born in Amherst, Mass., 
June II, 1832, spent two years in Union Theological seminary 
and one year at Andover, where he graduated in 1858. After 
preaching for a time in Stafford Springs, Conn,, and acting as 
a supply for some other churches, he was ordained -at Orleans, 




William I'Iasimax Dickinson. 



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Mass., Dec. 19, i860, where he remained two years. Later, he 
spent two years as acting pastor at Sprague, Conn., two years 
at Montville, Conn., then held pastorates at Canton, Mass., 
Walpole, N. H., 1870 — 1876, Chicopee, Mass., 1876 — 1887, 
and Fitzwilliam, N. H., 1887 — 1891. In November, 1891, he 
removed to Amherst, Mass., retiring from the ministry on ac- 
count of ill health. He traveled in Europe in the summer of 
1882. 

While residing in Amherst he occasionally supplied churches 
in the vicinity as health permitted, officiated at weddings and 
funerals, and was for several years in charge of the services in 
Zion chapel. He took a deep interest in the welfare of the 
colored people, and was greatly esteemed and beloved by them. 
A classmate writes, " Dickinson was a gentle soul from early 
manhood unto the end." 

During his residence in Chicopee he was chairman of the 
school board for six years. He died at Amherst of arterio- 
sclerosis, March 15, 1905. 

He was married, Sept. 6, i860, to Eliza H. Hobart of Am- 
herst, who survives him. Their son, Dr. Edward Baxter Dick- 
inson, a dentist, also resides in Amherst. He is a graduate of 
the dental school of the University of Pennsylvania, also studied 
surgery one year in the University. 

William Paley Duncan was born in Brooks, Me., April i, 
1833, entered Amherst in 185 1, remained one term, then en- 
gaged in teaching for a number of years. In June, 1863, he 
was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts at Northampton, and 
and from that time practiced his profession in Boston until his 
death, July 29, 1903. Author of poems, Ode to Webster, Un- 
knozvn, relative to the unknown dead of the civil war, and a 
poem for the Hanover (Mass.) Academy reunion, written three 
weeks before his death, and read by another as his S7C'an So/ig. 



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He married, Oct. 28, i860, Abbie F. Crane of Freetown, 
Mass., who now resides in Felton Hall, Cambridge, Mass. 
They had three children. Two sons are living ; the elder, 
John F., is practicing law at no State street, Boston; the 
younger, Payson W., is with the house of Codman & Hall, 
Dewey square, Boston. 

George Edward Dunlap, born at Huntington, Mass., Oct. 
2, 1832, engaged in teaching and business in Illinois and Mas- 
sachusetts, having charge of the academy in Rochester, Mass., 
from i860 to 1862, when he enlisted in Rochester's quota of 
nine months men, and served as a sergeant in the 51st Mass. 
V. M., until discharged in July, 1863. The next eight years he 
was engaged in business, iirst five as accountant in the office of 
the Crompton Loom Works in Worcester, Mass., and later as 
agent of the Continental Life Insurance Co. From 187 1 to 
1875 he was principal teacher in the New York Juvenile asy- 
lum, and was then appointed superintendent of the New York 
Orphan asylum, West 73d street and Broadway, a position 
which he held until 1883. Since that time he has been in mu- 
nicipal employment in the department of water supply, gas and 
electricity, 21 Park row, in the bureau of water register. Mail 
address, 245 Broadway, room 19. 

His wife, Julia E. Clapp of Worcester, whom he married 
June 2, 1857, shows only slightly the effects of time. Their 
only child, George F., died Aug. 6, 1864. 

Alfred Douglas Evans of Medford, Mass., born Decem- 
ber, 1833, was a member of the class five terms, 185 1 — 1853. 
He went west in 1856, was admitted to the bar in Iowa, spent 
two years in Dubuque, entered the navy, and under Farragut 
was at the taking of New Orleans, was deputy collector of in- 
ternal revenue there till 1869, when he went to T^xas as pay- 




George Edward Dunlap. 




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master of the frontier forces. In 1872 he returned to Boston ; 
spent fifteen months in Europe (1873 — 1874), then located as 
a lawyer at 16 Pemberton square. He died at Corpus Christi, 
Texas, June 24, 1884, having united with the Episcopal church 
in that place about two years before his death. 

Elijah Stites Fairchild was born in Mendham, N. J., May 
23> 1835. H^ l^ft Amherst at the end of the first term Sopho- 
more year, graduated at Princeton, N. J., in 1856; studied 
theology at Andover, and was ordained at Morrisania, N. Y., 
January, i860. Subsequently he held pastorates at Oyster 
Bay, L. I., at Flushing, L. I., and at College Point, L. I., until 
November, 1888, when he removed to Chicago, 111., and became 
associated with his sons in publishing a trade paper, steadily 
preaching, also, every Sunday until October, 1902. He is the 
author of a Sunday school question book on the Old and New 
Testaments, and Conjirinatioji an Apostolic Rite. 

He married Louisa Edgar Leavitt, Oct. 4, 1859. Four of 
their six children are living. P. O. address, 51 St. Clair street. 
His father was one of the three graduates of the first class in 
Amherst college, 1822. 

Elbert Eli Farman, born at Newhaven, N. Y., April 23, 
1 83 1, entered Amherst from Genesee college, Lima, N. Y., the 
second term of Junior year. After graduation, he studied law 
in Warsaw, N. Y., in the office of F. C. D. McKay, the district 
attorne}' of the county, and on his admission to the bar in 1858 
was admitted to partnership, and at once entered upon a de- 
sirable and lucrative practice. Determined to enlarge the 
field of observation, he sailed for Europe in 1865, and spent 
two years in travel and study, attending lectures on criminal, 
international and civil law at the universities of Berlin and 
Heidelberg, and acquired a practical knowledge of French and 



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German. In January, 1868, he was appointed by the governor 
district attorney of Wyoming county, a position which he held 
by election and re-election seven years. On the 27th of March, 
1876, he was appointed agent and consul-general of the United 
States at Cairo, Egypt. From the time of his arrival at his 
post until July, 1881, he discharged the duties of his office, 
which were chiefly diplomatic, with eminent success, with the 
approval of the home government and of all Americans in 
Cairo. His personal relations with the Khedive and the mem- 
bers of his government were also friendly and intimate. He 
naturally took a prominent part in the reception of Gen. Grant 
at Cairo, presented him to the Khedive, and acted as inter- 
preter in all their interviews. His attention was not limited to 
Americans, but his interest in humanity led him to help the op- 
pressed in Egypt, and fifteen slaves gained their freedom 
through his efforts. Among the negotiations successfully 
negotiated by Mr. Farman were those for the increase in the 
number of American judges in the international tribunal of 
Egypt. Another very important service was rendered in secur- 
ing the granite obelisk, known as Cleopatra's Needle, which 
stood so long in front of the temple of Caesar in Alexandria, 
and was originally erected in Heliopolis about sixteen centuries 
before Christ. To his discreet zeal and diplomatic tact the 
city of New York is greatly indebted for the gift of this inter- 
esting monument of one of the oldest civilizations, which is 
now the most valuable ornament in Central Park. 

During his term of service he made and classified a large 
and valuable collection of ancient coins, scarabaei, bronzes, ob- 
jects of porcelain and other antiquities, which may now be 
seen in the " Farman collections " in the Metropolitan museum, 
Central Park, New York. 

On the ist day of July, 1881, Mr. Farman was promoted by 
President Garfield to the position of judge of the mixed tribunals 




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of Egypt. He had previously been appointed as one of the 
delegates to represent the United States on an international 
commission instituted to revise the judicial code for the use of 
these tribunals. In the fall of 1882 Mr. Farman was appointed 
by President Arthur U. S. commissioner on the international 
commission of eleven members established to examine all 
claims arising from the late war in Egypt. It examined over 
ten thousand claims and awarded, in all, over twenty millions 
of dollars. A few months after the close of his work as com- 
missioner he resigned his position as judge, returned to Amer- 
ica, and took an active part in the campaign in behalf of the 
Republican candidate, James G. Blaine. Since that time he 
has been principally engaged in the management of his private 
affairs. He has given occasional lectures, and is the author of 
a book published in 1904, Along the Nile with General Grant. 

Mr. Farman has been twice married. His first wife, Lois P. 
Parker of Gainesville, N. Y., married Dec. 24, 1855, died June 
28, 1881. He married (2) Oct. 8, 1883, Adelaide F., daughter 
of Hon. David H. Frisbie of Galesburg, 111. They have three 
children. 

Mr. Farman received the degree of LL.D. from Amherst 
college in 1882. On leaving Egypt he was honored by the 
Sultan, through the Khedive, with the decoration of " Grand 
Officer of the Imperial Order of the Medjidieh," a distinction 
rarely conferred. 

He is a member of the Union League club and Sons of the 
Revolution, New York City. P. O. address, Warsaw, N. Y. 

Asa Severance Fiske was born in Strongsville, Ohio, 
March 2, 1833. After graduating he spent a year and a half 
teaching in Canandaigua, N. Y., then commenced the study of 
theology at Andover and New Haven, but returned to Amherst 
as tutor in 1857, where he remained two years, after which he 



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went to St. Paul, Minn., was ordained, and remained there 
three years as pastor. He served as chaplain of the House 
and Senate, then was in the army three years and a half as 

• chaplain and on detail as superintendent of freedmen in the 
-district of Memphis, having a hand in the construction of the 

Freedmen's bureau. Since that time he has held pastorates in 
Rockville, Conn., Second Congregational church, 1865 — 187 1 ; 
Rochester, N. Y., Jan. i, 1872 — 1875 ; San Francisco, Cal, 
Howard street Presbyterian church, 1875 — 1884 ; Ithaca, 
N. Y., First Presbyterian church, 1884 — 1896; Washington, 
D. C, Gunton Temple Presbyterian church, January, 1897, to 

• September, 1904; then was stated supply for First Presbyterian 
church in Warsaw, N. Y., until July i, 1905. His present ad- 
■^dress is Geneva, N. Y. 

Mr. Fiske received the degree of D.D. from Hamilton col- 
lege in 1889. 

His wife, Elizabeth Worthington Hand of Washington, D.C., 
whom he married Sept. 6, i860, and their two daughters are 
.all well. The elder, Zoe W., after a thorough course in art, 
both in this country and in Paris, became a member of the 
faculty in the Fine Arts department of Leland Stanford, Jr., 
university, Cal. She is now the wife of Morton A. Aldrich, 
professor of economics and sociology in Tulane university, New 
'Orleans, La., and is the happy mother of a little Helen. 

The younger, Christabel F., took her A. B. at Cornell, her 
A. M. at Columbian, and Ph.D. on a Fellowship at Cornell, 
.and is now in her second year in the faculty of Vassar college, 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

Appleton Howe Fitch, born in Hopkinton, Mass., March 
II, 1830, engaged in teaching, one year in Franklin academy, 
Dover, N. H., one year and a half in Chicago, III., one year 
in Dixon, 111., and five years in Peoria, 111. In May, 1864, he 



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enlisted in the army, and was chosen ist lieutenant, Co. F,. 
139th Illinois Vols. The regiment was discharged at Peoria, 
111., without having been called into any important service. He 
then started a manufactory of barrel staves at Maples, Ind., 
which prospered until Sept. 20, 1872, when everything that 
would burn was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $18,000, 
with no insurance. Not discouraged, he formed plans for re- 
building immediately, and " the engine was on the way to the 
machine shop before the embers had done smoking." In 1879, 
he left that " fever and ague country," and engaged in business 
in Kalamazoo, INIich., where he remained until July, 1886, when 
he returned to the old home farm in Hopkinton in order to care 
for his widowed mother, then 80 years of age. 

On his way he stopped by request at Syracuse, N. Y., and 
made an examination of the business methods of the milk pro- 
ducers of that region. The results of his investigations were 
embodied in a paper which he read at a meeting in Boston of 
farmers representing the milk producers of Massachusetts and 
New Hampshire. 

A plan proposed by him for promoting the business interests 
of the milk producers of New England was favorably received, 
and in less than three months a thorough organization was 
effected, which proved of great advantage to the farmers as a 
•body, and resulted in a saving to them in five years of nearly 
half a million of dollars. After the death of his mother, in 
1891, he removed to Chicago, 111., bought a home in Evanston, 
where he remained four years, acting as bookkeeper for a firm 
of building contractors. Since that time his summers have 
been passed on the old home farm and acting as executor of 
his mother's will. A part of the winters he spends in the west. 

His wife, Elizabeth H. Bennett of Chicago, 111., whom he 
married Oct. 3, 1859, is living, but is not very strong, and usu- 
ally spends the winters with her daughters (all living). The: 



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eldest, after teaching four years, became the wife of the super- 
intendent of schools in the city of Evanston. She has three 
daughters. The second, an artist, was the first teacher to take 
a position in the Pratt institute, Brooklyn. N. Y. She is now 
-a successful illustrator of books, and a designer of pictures for 
schoolroom ornamentation. Her husband, an architect of 
Chicago, was formerly a lecturer in the Institute of Technology 
in Boston. They have one daughter. 

The third was for six years head of the art department of 
the State Normal school in Milledgeville, Ga., and is now in a 
similar position in Indianapolis, Ind, The fourth is the wife 
of the assistant professor of engineering in Harvard university. 
They have two children, boys. 

The fifth took a post graduate course in kindergarten work 
at the Evanston High school until marriage intervened, when 
she joined her husband in settlement work near the Hull House 
in Chicago. They have one son. 

Edwin Augustus Gibbens, born in Boston, March 20, 1834, 
entered college with the class, and left at the end of the second 
term, Sophomore year. He graduated at Harvard in 1855, 
engaged in teaching in the High school, Jamaica Plain, and 
Public Latin school, Boston ; also at Waltham, Mass.; then 
took charge of a school for boys in New York city. He died 
in New York city, March 26, 1890. 

He married, July 28, 1858, Mary Elizabeth Chandler of 
Brookline, Mass., (now residing in Yokohama, Japan), and they 
had five children. The eldest. Chandler, born in Boston, June 
13, 1859, now resides in Yokohama, Japan. The second, 
Daniel Lewis, born in Waltham, May 21, 1861, died in New 
York city. May 20, 1890. Frances Vaughn, born in Waltham, 
Nov. 13, 1862, married George C. W^arren, April 8, 1890, and 
resides at Chestnut Hill, Mass. Constance, born in Waltham, 



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Sept. 5, 1864, married George John Melhuysh, March 22, 1893, 
and now resides in Kobe, Japan. Charles Lyon, born in Ford- 
ham, N. Y., April 21, 1877, died same place, Feb. 2, 1878. 

Elijah Bradner Gibbs was born in Orwell, Pa., July 21, 
1832. He entered Amherst in 1853, remained two terms, left 
on account of ill health, and engaged in business. Later, he 
graduated at Detroit, Mich., Medical college, and became a 
practicing physician in that city. 

Died at Orwell, Pa., Sept. 23, 1S99, "the last of his family." 
Married, October, 1S62, Sarah E. Gibson of Shashequin, Pa. 
No children. 

Edwin Smith Gilbert, born in Livonia, N. Y., July 26, 
1829, entered Amherst second term Junior year, coming from 
Genesee college, Lima, N. Y. After graduating, he engaged 
in teaching as professor of mathematics in the Hedding Liter- 
ary institute, Greene county, N. Y., and later in the Rochester 
Collegiate institute, N. Y. 

He entered the military service as 2d lieutenant, 13th regi- 
ment, N. Y. Vols., and after the first battle of Bull Run was 
promoted to ist lieutenant and a few months later to captain, 
and transferred to the 25th regiment. During the Peninsular 
campaign he rose to the rank of major, and at the battle of 
Hanover he was in command (after the wounding of the colonel 
and lieutenant colonel) of the regiment, which distinguished 
itself greatly. In one of the " seven days' battles," Major Gil- 
bert was taken prisoner, at Gaines Mill, June 27, 1862, and re- 
mained in Richmond six weeks in Libby prison, until Aug. 16, 
when he was exchanged at Harrison's Landing. 

On rejoining his regiment he was promoted to the rank of 
lieutenant colonel, but his health, already impaired by his im- 
prisonment, soon failed entirely, and he went home on a fur- 



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lough and died of consumption at Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 22, 
1863. 

He was twice married ; (i) Sept. 3, 1856, to Frances Rosalie 
King of Cairo, N. Y., who died of consumption in 1858 ; (2) 
Sept. 25, 1862, to Hattie, daughter of Dr. Hick of Rochester, 
N. Y. She afterwards married Frederic S. Webster at Roches- 
ter, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1882. 

John Long Graves was born in Sunderland, Mass., Aug. 
15, 1831. After graduation he commenced the study of 
theology with Rev. S. D. Clarke of Sunderland, and continued 
the study while in charge of an academy at Orford, N. H., 
from the spring of 1856 till the fall of 1857, when he was 
licensed to preach by the Franklin association in November. 
After further study during nearly ten months with Rev. Dr. 
Kirk in Boston, he was ordained and installed as pastor of the 
Springfield street Congregational church, Boston, Mass., De- 
cember, 1858. In 1862, he went abroad for a year and trav- 
elled in Europe. After a severe and critical surgical operation 
in Paris, which incapacitated him for reading and writing dur- 
ing more than two years, he returned to America, and resided 
in Northampton, Mass,, supplying churches in the vicinity 
(preaching without notes) until 1865. He then went to Wash- 
ington, D. C, having received a very flattering call to become 
pastor of the 4^ street Presbyterian church in that city, but 
before the end of one year he was obliged to relinquish preach- 
ing on account of serious bronchial trouble, and retired from 
the ministry in 1866. Subsequently he became general agent 
of the New York Life Insurance Co. in Springfield, Mass., 
where he lived about nine years, and then engaged in business 
in Boston as an importer of goods from Japan and China, in 
which he has been very successful. In 1883 he was chosen 
commissioner-in-chief of the Boston Foreign exhibttion for sev- 




John Long Gkavf.s. 



5° 

eral countries, and was instrumental in securing the leading 
exhibits from Russia, Persia, Japan and Korea. 

He has made oriental art a study, and has become one of 
the largest importers of art objects from other countries. 

He writes that he has no facts of interest about himself to 
report for the class record, but some of his friends know that, 
like Edward Everett Hale, he believes in lending a helpful 
hand, and that he shows his faith by his works. Of his many 
acts of private benevolence, this is not the proper time to speak, 
but one act of public beneficence should not be overlooked — 
the gift of a fine public library building to his native town. In 
the portico the gift is commemorated by a bronze tablet on 
which is the following inscription : " In gratitude to Him wdio 
permitted my birth in this beautiful valley, and in honoring and 
loving remembrance of my father and mother, Horatio Graves 
and Fanny Gunn Graves, this building has been erected by 
their son, John Long Graves, and given to the town of Sunder- 
land to be used as a public library as long as it shall stand. 
MDCCCC." 

His wife, Fannie G. Britton of Orford, N. H., whom he mar- 
ried Sept. I, 1858, and their two daughters, both unmarried, 
are all living, " thank the good Lord." 

William Allen Hallock, born at Plainfield, Mass., Aug. 27, 
1832, commenced the study of theology at Yale, but a severe 
injury upon his head soon after compelled him to give up study 
for a year, during which he took a voyage to Constantinople. 
On his return he re-entered Yale seminary, but at the end of 
the year went to Union Theological seminary, N. Y., and in 
1858 to East Windsor Hill Theological seminary, where he 
graduated in 1859. -^^ ^^^ pastor of the Congregational 
church in Gilead. Conn., from Oct. 23, i860, to June 20, 1864, 
when he was so severely injured in a railway accident as to be 




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laid aside from all kinds of service, even from reading, for 
about two years. In 1866 he resumed his ministerial labors in 
Chautauqua county, N. Y., where he enjoyed a remarkable re- 
vival, resulting in the conversion of nearly one hundred per- 
sons. From May, 1875, ^^ April 24, 1887, when he preached 
his farewell sermon, he was pastor of the church at Bloom- 
field, Conn. Since that time he has resided at the old home in 
Jamestown, N. Y. 

His wife, Clara M. Hall of Jamestown, N. Y., whom he mar- 
ried Sept. ig, i860, " went home" in September, 1897, so the 
cheer and sunshine went out of his home. His son, William 
Hall Hallock, a graduate of Amherst in 1885, " crossed the 
river" in February (13), 1894. " In the opinion of his profes- 
sors in that department Mr. Hallock (the son) was one of the 
best scholars in mathematics ever graduated from Amherst 
college." 

Mr. Hallock is now left with his one daughter, who ministers 
to his comfort in every possible way. He has one grandchild. 
His daughter is the wife of Alfred T. Livingston, M. D., a 
physician of rare ability and culture. 

Since leaving the active ministry his days have been very 
busy, not only in what he has been permitted to do for the 
Y. M. C. A. in the city, but in the little Sunday school started 
in a private parlor, which has steadily increased until now it 
has its grounds and buildings free from debt, and has fruited 
into a young, prosperous, undenominational church, though the 
charter members had been jjrought up in nine different denomi- 
nations, just a church of our Lord Jesus Christ and a homeiox 
the people. For more than two years it has had its own minis- 
ter, and is gaining a firm footing in the location, as the only 
church and Bible school among a population of 9,000 people, 
though many, of course, attend churches in the city, but these 
are remote from their homes. This work is in the line of real 



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Christian unity, a dropping of unessentials and fusing the peo- 
ple into oneness of heart and life. He is happy in this service, 
sometimes even counting it the most important of his life. 

Charles Harden, born in Mansfield, Mass., Jan. 2, 1834, 
was a teacher of Latin in Delaware Literary institute, Frank- 
lin, N. Y., one year after graduation, then spent a year at home 
working upon the farm with his father, while preaching regu- 
larly in the Christian church, which the family always attended, 
and of which four of them were members. 

In September, 1857, he entered Andover Theological semi- 
nary, but remained only three months, and then went to Ober- 
lin, Ohio, and remained six months, then returned to his home 
in Mansfield, with health impaired and dissatisfied with the 
theology and apparent spirit of the institutions. He was 
variously employed in preaching, teaching, farming and study- 
ing privately until May, 1864, when he was licensed by the 
Ohio association of the New Jerusalem church, and ordained 
Dec. 4, 1864. From that time he devoted himself exclusively 
to preaching, in Urbana, Ohio, St. Louis, Mo., Foxboro and 
Mansfield, Mass., until 1871, when he went to Contoocook, 
N. H., which has since been his home. Some of the time he 
has devoted to missionary work for the new church in Massa- 
chusetts and Maine. Since 1880 he has preached only occa- 
sionally, and has been engaged in life insurance. 

His publications include various tracts, lectures and ser- 
mons in defense of the Swedenborgian faith, and newspaper 
articles in illustration and defense of the Henry George system 
of taxation, and newspaper correspondence. 

His third wife, Annie E. McGlathry of Searsport, Me., mar- 
ried Sept. 29, 187 1, still makes his home cheerful and happy. 
Of his four children two are living, the son, Charles Henry, is 




Charles Hardon. 




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chief engineer of the Pomona Irrigation Co., Pomona, Cal. 
The daughter, Annie May, is married, and resides in Contoo- 
cook. 

Elijah Paddock Harris, born at LeRoy, N. Y., April 3, 
1832, entered Amherst from Genesee college, third term of 
Junior year, engaged in teaching as principal of an academy, 
one year in Sodus, N. Y., and one year in Warsaw, N. Y., then 
went to Germany and spent two years in the study of chemistry 
and physics in the University of Gottengen, where he received 
the degrees of A. M. and Ph.D. Returning to America, after 
spending some time in travel and in Paris, he commenced his 
labors as professor of chemistry and natural history in Victoria 
college, Cobourg, C. W., in the summer of 1859, and remained 
there until called to fill the same position in Beloit college. 
Wis., in 1867. At the end of one year he was called to fill the 
chair of chemistry in his Alma Mater, and entered upon his 
duties at Amherst in October, 1868. This position he still 
holds at the age of 73, performing his duties with marked 
ability and success. 

He has published at Gottengen, in 1859, a work on Meteor- 
ites ; a Manual of Qiialitath'e Analysis (last edition in 1904), 
and a work on Non-Metallic Chemistry for the use of students. 

He was married, July 26, i860, to Ellen A. Park of Warsaw, 
N. Y., who, with four of their six children, is still living, a true 
helpmeet, filling his home with cheer and sunshine. 

The four children are all happily married. Edward Park, a 
graduate of Amherst in 1885, is principal of a boys' school in 
Lakewood, N. J. Harry P. is a farmer in Warsaw, N. Y. 
Frank P., a graduate also of Amherst in the class of 1900, is 
chemist and manager of a company engaged in the manufac- 
ture of high explosives. Ella A. is the wife of W. B. Pratt of 
Elmira, N. Y., ex-'95 Amherst, and has three children. 



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Nathaniel Coleman Hart, born in Bedford, N. Y., Aug. i6, 
1835, entered Amherst from Columbia first term of Sophomore 
year, studied law in his father's office, and was admitted to the 
bar Jan. 15, 1857. 

While attending upon his brother, a member of a regiment 
of N, Y. Vols., who was sick in the barracks near the city, he 
was attacked with scarlet fever and died in New York city, 
June 6, 186 1. 

John Hartwell was born in Lincoln, Mass., Dec. 20, 1827. 
After graduating he taught a select school one term in Buck- 
land, Mass., then entered the theological seminary at East 
Windsor Hill, Conn., and graduated in 1857. He preached as 
supply at Hartland, Conn., New Preston, Conn., and in various 
places until he was ordained as pastor of the Congregational 
church in Leverett, Mass., Sept. 29, 1859. He remained there 
live years, then preached seven years in Becket, Mass., one 
year in Southbury, Conn., and was pastor of the church there 
from Oct. 30, 1872, until his death from inflammatory rheuma- 
tism, Dec. 18, 1878. 

He married, June 20, i860, Sarah Wetmore Southmayd of 
Middletown, Conn., who died at Washington, D. C, July 31, 
1 90 1. Of their four children, one, Lucy W., died in infancy ; 
Charles W., graduated M. D. at Yale Medical school ini89i, 
and died at New Haven, Conn., Jan. 26, 1892 ; Lucy S. died 
at New Haven, Feb. 4, 1884; Mary A. graduated at Smith 
college in the class of 1894, and spent two years at the Forbes 
library, Northampton, Mass. Since November, 1896, she has 
been cataloguer in the office of the superintendent of docu- 
ments, Washington, D. C. P. O. address, 941 S street, N. W., 
Washington, D. C. 



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Franklin Ebenezer Hawley of Ridgefield, Conn., was born 
Oct. 8, 1832, entered Amherst in September, 1851, and died at 
home Dec. 5, 1853. 

Joseph Bassett Holland, born in Fajetteville, Vt., July 
II, 1830, entered Amherst in the scientific department in 1854, 
and left college before the end of the year, but for some special 
work he was given the degree of A. M., honoris caitsa^ in 1S56. 
He graduated with high honors at Dartmouth college in 1858, 
and was principal of Westfield academy, at Westfield, Mass., 
1858 — 1861. He then studied medicine, and graduated M. D. 
at Dartmouth in 1866 and at the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons in New York in 1867. He was demonstrator of 
microscopical and pathological anatomy at Dartmouth, 1865 — 
1866, special student at Harvard and demonstrator of chemis- 
try, 1867- — 1868. From 1868 until his death Dr. Holland was 
engaged in business as wholesale publisher and bookseller, in 
New York, and in Galesburg, 111., to which place he went in 
1870, and where he occupied a large field of usefulness. He 
was editor of Bradley's Atlas of the World, a member of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the 
British Economic association. He died at Boston, Mass., Feb. 
14, 1902, of atrophy of the muscles, brought on by walking too 
much after an attack of pneumonia before he gained his 
strength. 

Dr. Holland married, in 1872, Miss Mary May of Galesburg, 
111., who, with two sons, survives him, residing in Galesburg. 
His will provides that in case of the death of all the bene- 
ficiaries, leaving no heirs, the trust fund, or whatever remains 
of it, shall be divided between Dartmouth college and Amherst 
college. 



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Joseph Henry Houghton of New York city, was born May, 
1 83 1, entered college with the class, and left college at the end 
■of the first term of Sophomore year, and "engaged in various 
business pursuits." He was lieutenant and adjutant of the 
51st regiment of U. S. (colored) infantry, 1864 — 1866 ; brevet 
<;aptain, 1866 ; aide on the staff of Gen. Hawkins, 1864 — 
1866 ; clerk of the Supreme court of Washington territory, 
1 87 1 — 1877 ; general land agent of the Northern Pacific R. R. 
ior the Pacific coast, 1877 — 1882 ; secretary and treasurer of 
"the Tacoma Light and Water Co., 1882 — ?; member of the 
territorial legislature, 1883. He died in 1899. 

Martin Stoddard Howard was born in Milford, Mass., Aug. 
22, 1830. After graduation he studied theology privately while 
teaching school at South Dennis, Mass., and was licensed to 
preach by the Brewster association, April 15, 1856, and or- 
dained at West Yarmouth, Mass., Nov. 30, 1856, and remained 
there two years and three months. He was pastor at South 
Dartmouth, Mass., from May 19, 1859, to 1864, and at Grove- 
land, Mass., 1864 to 1868. Since Oct. 29, 1868, he has been 
pastor at Wilbraham, Mass., a long pastorate, the third in 
length in any denomination in Massachusetts. 

During these years he has written in full more than two 
thousand sermons and preached three thousand times. Nine- 
teen of his sermons have been published, most of them preached 
on special occasions, also several poems and addresses. Among 
them may be noted Christian Patriotism^ 1861 ; Words of Wel- 
come, a sermon and address on the so^ldiers' return, 1865 ; 
Death of President Garfield, 188 1 ; Poem at Milford centennial, 
1880 ; Poem at dedication of Southworth Library, 1890 ; Histori- 
■cal Discourse, First church, Wilbraham, 189 1 ; Oration at un- 
veiling of soldiers' monument, Wilbraham, 1894 ; Recognition, 
J897 ; Sack Cloth, 1899; From Twelve to Thirty, 1900; No 




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More Sea, 1902 ; PJiaros ; Rays From the I.ighthouse Lantern, 
1903 (republished in the Sailors' Magazine, 1904); The Life 
Saving Ser7'iee, 1905 (also republished in the Sailors'' Magazine) ; 
Dawn at Eventiile, pp. 50 ; also many articles in the Congrega- 
tionalist and Boston Recorder. He was for many years New 
England correspondent of the San Francisco FaeHic. These 
are some of the things which he has done — something, he hopes, 
in the way of being useful to his fellownien and to the church. 
His wife, Mary A. Carlton of Hopkinton, Mass., whom he 
married Sept. 26, 1855, and three of their five children are 
living. The three children graduated at Wilbraham academy. 
The two sons both graduated at the Agricultural college at 
Amherst. Edwin, the elder, is principal of the centre grammar 
school in Northampton. The other, who was a leader in his 
class in mathematics and chemistry, is now assistant professor 
of chemistry in the same college. 

Charles Morton Howland, born in Conway, Mass., Nov. 
27, 1830, left college on account of ill health at the end of the 
first term Freshman year, and died at home, Oct. 10, 1853. 

Dixi Crosby Hoyt was born at Northfield, N. H., Aug. 24, 
1833. After graduation he studied medicine at Harvard Medi- 
cal school, received the degree of M. D. in i860, and practiced 
his profession one year in Southville, Mass. In 1S61 he en- 
tered the service of his country as a private soldier, but being 
disabled by a severe fever he was honorably discharged. After 
his recovery he was appointed assistant surgeon of the 5th 
Mass. nine months regiment, and at the expiration of this term 
of service was appointed post surgeon at Readville, the rendez- 
vous of Massachusetts troops. After two months of this ser- 



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vice he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the 2d Mass. 
heavy artillery, and with the regiment was in several battles at 
Newbern and Kingston, N. C. 

While exhausted by overwork with his regiment and in behalf 
of colored recruits and the helpless citizens of Newburn, he was 
attacked by the yellow fever, and died " as the Christian dies, 
in the assurance of hope," Nov. i, 1864, aged 31. 

William Edgar Hughitt was born in Genoa, N. Y., Oct. 22, 
1832. After graduation, he studied law in Rochester, N. Y., 
was admitted to the bar in that city in 1857, and practiced his 
profession in Auburn, N. Y., from that year until his death 
from apoplexy, April 12, 1897. From 1864 to 1878 he was 
judge of the Cayuga county court. He also held many minor 
offices, and gave general satisfaction in the discharge of his 
public duties. 

For a number of years he was president of the First National 
bank, and was connected with many manufacturing concerns. 
Chiefly, however, he devoted himself through life to the prac- 
tice of his profession, and was universally considered the leader 
of the bar in Cayuga county, and one of the ablest lawyers in 
the state. He was an active member of the First Presbyterian 
church in Auburn, and was one of its ruling elders from 1878 
until his death. 

Judge Hughitt was married, March 11, 1856, to Rachel Mil- 
liken of Genoa, N. Y., who, with three of their six children, sur- 
vived him. Mrs. Hughitt died in July, 1899. His son, Fred- 
eric E., a lawyer in Auburn, N. Y., is a graduate of Amherst, of 
the class of 1881. His daughter, Caroline, graduated from 
Wells college, Aurora, N. Y. His daughter, Emma, was for a 
time a member of Mt. Holyoke seminary. 




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Savilian Richard Hull, born in Cheshire, Conn., July i6, 

1827, entered Amherst in 1851, remaining one term, re-entered 
in 1852, ist term Sophomore year, and left college in the ist 
term of Junior year to study law. He practiced his profession 
in Iowa, in Meriden, Conn., and since 1880 in New Haven, 
At the age of 77 he is still active and vigorous, "can walk 
fifteen miles continuously without fatigue." 

His wife, Virginia Simpson of Harper's Ferry, Va., whom he 
married Nov. 9, 1858, is also in good health, and both "bid 
fair to enjoy a respectable old age." 

Of their ten children the oldest son (Samuel Byron) and the 
youngest daughter (Bertha) are unmarried, and living in his 
family. Of the others, four have died, and four are married. 
P. O. address, 259 Wooster street. 

Chester Daniel Jefferds, born in Dixfield, Me., Feb. 20, 

1828, entered Amherst September, 1851, with a capital of ten 
dollars. After graduating he studied theology at Andover 
Theological seminary three years, and after spending a few 
months in the service of the Vermont Domestic Missionary so- 
ciety at Richmond aud Jamaica, was ordained pastor of the 
Congregational church in Chester, Vt., Oct. 30, 1858. 

An attack of bleeding at the lungs in the summer of i86j 
compelled him to suspend his ministerial labors for several 
weeks, and in June of the next year he was obliged by another 
attack to relinguish his work entirely. From that time the 
disease made rapid progress, and caused his death at Chester, 
Vt., Nov. 22, 1862, at the age of 34. 

He married, Jan. 18, 1859, Electa E. Miller of Dummerston, 
Vt., who is now living in Ludlow, Vt. In 1866 she married 
Mr. Woodburn, who died in 1900. They had two daughters, 
both married, with one of whom she makes her home at pres- 
ent. Of Mr. Jefferd's three children only one, Mary H., is 



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living. She graduated at Wellesley college, taught one year 
in Talladega college, then married Rev. F. A. Holden, now pas- 
tor of the Congregational church in Huntington, Conn. She is 
the mother of seven children. 

Dana Israel Jocelyn was bom in Georgia, Vt., Dec. 6, 

1830. After graduation he engaged in teaching in the high 
school in Grafton, Mass., six months ; in Stoneham, Mass., 
three years and a half; in Lowell, one year ; in Clinton high 
school two years; in Maiden, where he remained three years, 
1862 to 1865, acting as clerk to Paymaster Varnum one year. 
Since 1865 he has practiced den-tistry in St. Louis, Mo., twenty- 
nine years. He left his professional business in 1894 to go in 
search of health for Mrs. Jocelyn. She was improved, but is 
bitterly afiflicted with disease of the spine. 

He was married, Sept. 10, 1874, to Maria Louisa Moyer of 
St. Louis, Mo. They had one child, Alice, who died when one 
year old. 

He has always been interested in Christian work, and served 
two terms as deacon in Pilgrim Congregational church in St. 
Louis. P. O. address, 6216 Columbia avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 

William Leonard Joy was born in Townshend, Vt., Aug. 17, 

1831. After graduation he studied law while teaching in the 
seminary at Townshend, one year, then with Judge John Rob- 
erts of that town, till admitted to the bar in May, 1857. He 
then went to Sioux City, Iowa, and practiced his profession 
there until the end of his active life. 

He was U. S. district attorney of Dakota territory, 1864 — 
1865; a member of the legislature of Iowa, 1862 — 1866; one 
of the capitol commissioners, 1870 — 1872. In 1868 he was 
attorney for the Sioux City and Pacific R. R. Co., and was in- 
fluential in securing legislation for the purpose of constructing 




Dan'a Israel Jocelyn. 



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railways for northwestern Iowa, and the legislation which he 
secured was of inestimable value to that part of the state. 
From the organization of the Sioux National bank, in 1880 he 
was its president until January, 1896. He died of gangrene, 
caused by Bright's disease, in Corona, Cal., July i, 1899. 

He married, Oct, 9, 1859, Frances A. Stone of Westmoreland, 
N. H., who, with their two children, survived him. 

Henry Sylvester Kelsey was born in LeRoy, N. Y., Dec. 
5, 1830. He taught school three winters before going to East- 
hampton, Mass., to prepare for college, and three terms during 
his college course. After graduation he taught one year in 
Gallipolis, Ohio. The second year was spent in theological 
study. In 1857 he returned to Amherst, where he remained as 
tutor and instructor in mathematics until i860. 

In February, i860, Martha Porter Snell, to whom he had 
long been engaged to be married, passed away after a lingering 
decline in consumption. 

In the autumn of i860 he accepted the chair of mathematics, 
natural philosophy and astronomy in Beloit college. Wis., which 
he occupied for three years, when, returning east, he became 
pastor of the church in Granby, Mass., in October, 1863. 
While in Beloit, in 1861, he married Miss Harriet A. Beebe of 
Litchfield, Conn., who passed away in the summer of 1865, and 
whose daughter, twenty months old, followed her in the spring 
of 1866. This was the only child he ever had. 

After three years labor in Granby he accepted a call to 
Rockville, Conn., where he remained until the winter of 1868. 
While at Rockville, in October, 1867, he was married to Mrs. 
Elizabeth L. (Foster) Fiske, widow of his old friend. Rev. 
Samuel Fiske, (Dunn Brown). Mrs. Fiske had two sons, George 
F. and Arthur S., eight and five years old, who in due time were 




William L. Joy, 



[Mrs, Joy is still living and her P. O. address is S23 5th St., Sioux City, 
Iowa. Their two children are both married. The son, Chauncey L., a grad- 
uate of the State University of Iowa, is an Attorney-at-Law, Sioux City, 
Iowa. — From a letter received Sept. 27, 1905.] 




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sent to Amherst, and graduated in the classes of 1881 and 
1884. 

After finishing his labors in Rockville, two years were spent 
as superintendent of schools in Mobile, Ala., under the auspices 
of the American Missionary association, and as principal of 
Geneva, N. Y., academy. 

In October, 1870, he became pastor of the Congregational 
church in Holliston, Mass., where he remained until called to 
the church in Woburn, Mass., in 1873. FromWoburn he went 
to New Ha\^n, Conn., in February, 1877, and was acting pas- 
tor of the College street church until the autumn of 1884. In 
the summer of 1880 he took a much needed rest in a long and 
delightful tour abroad. 

His oldest stepson, having acquired his profession by three 
years of study in Germany, concluded to make his home in 
Chicago, 111., whither his parents accompanied him, and where 
they have since resided. For several years Mr. Kelsey was 
engaged in the insurance business. 

In October of 1891 the family suffered grievous bereavement 
in the loss of their son, Arthur S. Fiske, who died of consump- 
tion at Meran, Austria, just as he had completed his prepara- 
tions for a professorship in Hartford Theological seminary. 

In 1894 he opened an optical establishment, in which he has 
been occupied to the present time and which he hopes to con- 
tinue while he has strength to labor. 

In conclusion, he wishes to express grateful acknowledgments 
for uniform health and for strength scarcely impaired ; for com- 
forts of home, made bright and happy by loving companions 
and hosts of friends ; in these last days, for the unspeakable 
privilege of meeting classmates in their fiftieth reunion ; and 
also to record his unchanging faith in the ultimate complete 
recovery of suffering humanity through the uplifting power of 
our brother, Jesus the Christ. P. O. address, 72 Madison 
street, Chicago, III. 




James Brown Lord, 



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Edward Payson Lane, born at Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, 
O., May 5, 1833, entered Amherst in 1851, remained one term 
and then went into mercantile business, but, health failing, he 
went south and died at Memphis, Tenn., May 18, 1869. 

He was married, Sept. 26, 1854, to Lucinda Tanner of Cin- 
cinnati, O. They had four children. 

Cyrus Baldwin Lombard, born in Aurelius, N. Y., April 
28, 1829, entered Amherst in 1851. remained one term, studied 
theology privately with W. R. G. Mellen (Universalist) at Au- 
burn, N. Y. In 1855 he commenced preaching at Girard, Pa., 
was pastor in Plymouth, Mass., in Mt. Vernon, N. Y., Spring- 
field, III, preached also for a time in Medford, Shirley and 
New Bedford, Mass., and in 1879 was pastor of the Universa- 
list church in Neenah, Wis. Dec. 17, 1880, he was "quite out 
of health," in Auburn, N. Y. 

In 1871, he married Lizzie Dillon of Virden, 111., a portrait 
artist. His wife, a staid lady of 57, is a Spiritualist and a 
leader of the faith in Peoria. Their daughter, Jessie, now of 
age, 26 (1905), imbibed the spirit, and is a prosperous artist, 
conducting as such a studio in Peoria, 111. Their son, Ernest, 
aged 24, is taking a civil engineering course in St. Paul, Minn. 
P. O. address, 31 Old Library building, Peoria, 111. 

James Brown Lord was born in Ipswich, Mass., June 6, 
1835. He taught one year after graduating in Hempstead, 
L. L, N. Y., then studied law with Hon. Otis P. Lord, in 
Salem, Mass., and later at Harvard Law school, where he re- 
ceived the degree of LL.B. in i860. Admitted to the bar in 
July, i860, he has since practiced his profession in Boston, ex- 
cepting the years 1861 to 1865, when he was practicing in 
Methuen, Mass. He still shakes a stick. 

His wife, M. Arvilla Hibbard of Methuen, Mass., whom he 
married April 11, 1866, is still his companion, and his daugh- 
ter (unmarried) lives at home. 



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Matthew McClung was born in Knoxville, Tenn., March 
II, 1833. After graduation he immediately entered the law 
school at Lebanon, Tenn., where by reading during vacations 
he graduated in the autumi) of 1856. He practiced his profes- 
sion with great success one year in Lexington, Mo., but was 
obliged by ill health, on account of the climate, to return to 
Tennessee. April 29, 1858, he married Julia Anderson of 
Nashville, Tenn., and began business in Knoxville. About 
-eighteen months later he accepted the offer of a partnership in 
a large wholesale dry goods establishment, in which his father- 
in-law was the senior partner, in Nashville, where he remained 
until the breaking out of the war, securing for himself quite a 
handsome fortune, which was subsequently lost by the casual- 
ties of war. Though at first strongly opposed to secession, he 
joined the army under A. S. Johnson after hostilities began, 
served through the war, and was paroled at Macon, Ga., by 
Gen. Wilson of the U. S. army. After settling the debris of 
his former business, he entered into partnership with the firm 
of Carrick, HoUins & Co., wholesale boot, shoe and hat deal- 
ers, at Nashville, Tenn. In 1872 he received a most flattering 
business offer in Knoxville, and in January, 1873, removed to 
that city, where he has remained to the present time. Since 
1879 ^^ ^^^ been a member of the firm of Cowan, McClung & 
Co., wholesale dry goods, notions and men's furnishings, in 
Knoxville, Tenn. His firm, a classmate writes, " is rated a 
million." His life has been characterized by close confinement 
and exacting labor, but he is apparently about as active and 
can accomplish as much as ever. Though a democrat, ar- 
dently loving his state and section, he is charitable toward those 
who hold different opinions, is an admirer of our republican 
institutions, uncompromisingly opposed to men who favor a 
departure from the old landmarks, and wants no solid South 




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nor solid North, but a compact and solid Union, with God- 
fearing men to occupy places of trust and power. 

Mr. McClung was elected a vice-president of the Society of 
the Alumni at Amherst, in 1905. 

The wife of his youth is still with him, and is, as he thinks, 
" a perfect ' none such,' " " the sweetest wife ever vouchsafed to 
any man." It was through her influence and example that he 
began a new life and united with the church and engaged in 
religious work. 

Of their nine children, only two are living. The oldest son 
resides in Knoxville with his wife and two young daughters. 
The youngest son is the assistant superintendent of the great 
steel plant at Chicago, 111., a man of character and ability of a 
very high order. 

He has with him, also, a little granddaughter, the motherless 
child of his youngest daughter, Pattie G., who died in giving 
her birth. 

Benjamin Mattice, born in Middleburg, N. Y., April 8, 
1830, entered Amherst third term Freshman year, and re- 
mained one term. Graduated at Amherst in the class of 1856, 
engaged in teaching eight terms, studied law three years, was 
admitted to the bar in Albany in 1863, and has practiced his 
profession in Mascoutah, 111., and in Pueblo, Colo. He was 
register in bankruptcy for the 12th Illinois district six years. 

He was married. May 27, 1869, to Sarah L. Rayhill of Mas- 
coutah, 111. Three children. 

George Bradley Melvin, born in Derry, N. H., Feb. 21, 
1834, entered with the class in 185 1, and took dismission in 
third term Sophomore year. " Talents took a fiddlebow turn, 
while he had a constitutional antipathy to study." He never 
studied a profession, on account of ill health, and died at home 
Aug. 26, 1857. 



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Orville Willard Merrill, born in Orford, N. H., March 21, 
1826, left college at the end of the first term Freshman year, 
studied theology at East Windsor, preached in Corinth, Vt., 
Waterloo, Iowa, and was pastor at Anamosa, Iowa, eight years. 
He was then superintendent of home missions for Nebraska 
from 1870 until his death, in Lincoln, Neb., March 11, 1874. 
He received an honorary A. M. from Iowa college. 

He was married, Nov. 28, 1861, to Anna J. Couch of West- 
field, N. Y. They had two children. 

Phineas Mixer, Jr., of Unionville, Ohio, was born Oct. 18, 
1828, entered Amherst second term Sophomore year, and left 
at the close of second term Junior year. He graduated at 
Williams college in 1855, studied theology, and graduated at 
Lane Theological seminary in 1858. 

He was later a farmer in DeWitt, Ark. He died in 1880. 



George Lowell Montague, born in South Hadley, Mass., 
Dec. 15, 1833, entered college with the class and left at the 
end of second term Junior year, and graduated at Williams 
college in 1855. He engaged in teaching at Beloit, Wis., and 
Freeport, 111., 1856 — 1860; studied law; entered the army in 
1861, was lieutenant and captain of 37th Mass. regiment, was 
promoted to the rank of major and lieutenant colonel, and was 
brevetted colonel. May 12, 1864, " for distinguished gallantry 
in the battle of Spottsylvania Court House." After the battle 
of Winchester, Col. Montague was in command of the town of 
Winchester for four months. After the war he engaged in 
life insurance, as actuary of the Universal Life Insurance Co. 
of New York, and later as a broker. Since 1888 he has been 
president of Mount Hope Cemetery association, 380 Sixth 
avenue. New York city. 




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Col. Montague delivered the Memorial day address at Fair- 
haven, Mass., May 30, 1903. 

His wife, May Deniming of Sterling, 111., whom he married 
May 29, 1865, died July 28, 1879. No children. 

William Lewis Montague, bom in Belchertown, Mass., 
April 6, 1831, engaged in teaching two terms before graduating, 
then two years at W'illiston seminary and thirty-eight years at 
Amherst college. At Williston, where he prepared for college, 
[Ayres, Buck, Dickinson, Graves, Hawley, Rowland, Kelsey. 
G. L. Montague, Moore and Nason were his classmates also at 
Williston] he was teacher of Latin and (ireek ; at Amherst, 
tutor in Latin and mathematics, instructor in Latin and French, 
and professor of French, Italian and Spanish. He also studied 
theology privately, spent a vacation of six weeks at Andover 
Theological seminary, made a full abstract of Professor Parks' 
entire course on systematic theology, was licensed to preach by 
the Hampshire Fast association, Feb. 14, i860, and later sup- 
plied various churches. In addition to his work as teacher, he 
was registrar of the college twenty years(i86o — 1880,) librarian 
of the college fourteen years (1864 — 1878), and manager of 
the Amherst Summer School of Languages, 1883 — 1S96. 

As secretary of a committee of the alumni he conducted the 
correspondence which resulted in the establishment of class 
scholarships. As a member of the faculty, he served on the 
committee on degrees, on the curriculum, and on the assign- 
ment of scholarships. He took an active part in the work of 
the college church, was deacon twenty years, and for a long 
time clerk of the church. As secretary and treasurer of the 
library committee, 1864 — 1895, he ordered all books approved 
by the committee and paid, from income of library funds, all 
the bills, amounting to about fifty thousand dollars. He took 
a deep interest in the village improvement association, and as 



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chairman of its executive committee superintended the grading 
of the public park. 

He has been many years a member of the Societe de Linguis- 
tiqiie de Paris, the American Philological association, and the 
Modern Language association of America. During his con- 
nection with the college he made three trips to Europe on leave 
of absence for the purpose of study and travel, 1865 — 1866, 
187 1 — 1872, 1889 — 1890. He resigned his professorship in 
1895, and spent four years (1896 — 1900) in Paris in literary 
work. Since his return to Amherst he has been engaged in 
private teaching and in editing books, also as instructor in 
English literature with the Home Correspondence school, 
Springfield, Mass, since 1902. He received the degree of 
Ph.D. from Illinois Wesleyan university in 1893. 

He has published, as author or editor, " Manual of Italian 
Grammar," 1870 (3d edition, 1888); "Catalogue of Books 
added to Amherst College Library from 1855 to 187 1," (14,300 
volumes), 187 1 ; " Comparative Grammar of the Spanish Lan- 
guage, with an Historical Introduction," 1873 ; " Introduction 
to Italian Literature," 1875 ; Sketch of Amherst College Li- 
brary (in " Public Libraries of the United States,"), 1876 ; 
" French Language and Literature," in Johnson's Cyclopaedia, 
1876 ; " Manual of the Church of Christ in Amherst College," 
1878 ; " Quarter-Centennial Record of the Class of '55 Amherst 
College," 1880 ; "The Montague Family in England,"' an address, 
1882; "Biographical Record of Non-Graduate Members of Am- 
herst College, 1821 — 1871," 1881; "Biographical Record of 
Alumni of Amherst College, 1 82 1 — 187 1," 1883; History and Gen- 
ealogy of the Montague Family in America," with George W. Mon- 
tague, the compiler, 1885 ; Modern Italian Readings in Prose and 
Poetry," 1893 ; " La Fille de Roland par Bor?iier,'" with notes 
and introduction, 1895 ; " Biographical Record of Alumni and 
Non-Graduate Members of Amherst College, Vol. II, 187 1 — 



8s 

1896," 1 90 1. He has also contributed articles to the N'eiv 
England Magazine, Academy and newspapers. 

The wife of his youth, Rebecca Waterman Pope of Plymouth, 
Mass., whom he married Aug. 19, 1858, is still the light and 
joy of his home. Their two adopted children are both living. 
Fred is married and has two children. 

Charles William Moore, born in West Boylston, Mass., 
Nov. 28, 1832, entered with the class in 185 i ; left college at 
the end of the first term Junior year ; on the Illinois Central 
R. R., 1854 — 1858 ; high school teacher and superintendent of 
schools in Massachusetts, Illinois and Minnesota, 1858 — 1862, 
1863 — 1869. He enlisted in Co. I, 51st regiment, Mass. Vols., 
Aug. 19, 1862, for nine months service ; was promoted ist ser- 
geant, May 19,1863; commissioned 2d lieutenant, June i, 
1863, and mustered out July 27, 1863. He was superintendent 
of the western division of the St. Paul and Pacific R. R. from 
1869 to April, 1876, then travelling salesman for a wholesale 
grocery establishment in Minneapolis, Minn., and later in the 
fire insurance business until his death, Oct. 17, 189 1. 

His wife, L. Amanda Harthan of West Boylston, Mass., 
whom he married April 10, 1859, died in Minneapolis, March 
9, 1895. Their five children are all living, all married, and all 
pleasantly situated. The eldest daughter is the wife of Judge 
Charles L. Lewis of St. Paul, Minn. The son is a banker in 
Merriam Park, Minn. All reside in Minnesota except the 
youngest, who lives in Brookline, Mass. 

Henry Bradford Nason was born in Foxborough, Mass., 
June 22, 1831, entered college in 1852, and graduated in the 
scientific department. He then went to Germany and studied 
chemistry, mineralogy and geology in the University of Gotten- 
gen, also attended lectures on physics and botany, and gradu- 
ated with the degree of Ph.D. in 1857. In April, 1858, he was 



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appointed professor of natural history in the Rensselaer Poly- 
technic institute, Troy, N. Y., and in September, 1858, accepted 
the professorship of chemistry and natural science at Beloit 
college, Wis., lecturing half a year in each of these institutions 
from 1858 to 1866, when he was appointed professor of chem- 
istry and mineralogy at the Rensselaer institute, a position 
which he held until his death, from apoplexy, in Troy, Jan. 18, 
1895. 

Dr. Nason made extended tours in different parts of Europe, 
in the interest of scientific studies, in 1855 — 1857, 1861, 1877, 
and 1884. For the same purpose he also visited California 
and other western states, at several different times. He served 
as juror in the international exposition at Paris in 1878. The 
same year he was elected fellow of the London Chemical so- 
ciety. He was also a member of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, and of the Society of Chemical 
Industry, England, a member of the American Chemical so- 
ciety, of the Troy Scientific association, of the x\merican Insti- 
tute of Mining Engineers, of the Norske Turistforenings, Chris- 
tiana, Norway ; a corresponding member of the New York 
Academy of Science, and an honorary member of the Albany 
Institute. He was director of the Technical Museum of the 
Pratt institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., for the year 1888 — 1889. The 
degree of M. D. was conferred upon him by Union college, 
N. Y., in 1880, and that of LL.D. by Beloit college in the same 
year. 

Dr. Nason was the author of Inaugural Dissertation on the 
jFormation of Ether, 1857 ; a translation and revision of 
Wdhler''s Handbook of Mineral Analysis, i860 ; Table of Re- 
action for Qualitative Analysis, 1865 ; Table for Qualitative 
Analysis in Colors, 1870 ; a translation and revision of Elder- 
\vox%\'% Maiiual of Blowpipe Analysis, 1873; Fourth and fifth 
editions of the same, 1875 — 1876 ; Manual of Blowpipe Analy- 



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s/s a)id Determinath'e Mineralogy, 1880 ; Biographical Record of 
the Officers and Graduates of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 
1886. 

His wife, Fiances K. Townsend of Troy, N. Y., whom he 
married Sept. 7, 1864, died Dec. 7, 1902. 

Her son, Henry T. Nason, county judge of Rensselaer county, 
died March 2>'^, 1903. 

Moses Noerr, born in Phihidelphia, Pa., Aug. 17, 1833, en- 
tered the Sophomore class at Amherst in 1852, and Princeton 
Theological seminary in 1856, and graduated there in 1859. 
He was ordained at Maquoketa, la., in June, i860, and re- 
mained pastor of the church there four years, then became 
pastor of the Presbyterian church at Bellevue, la. After two 
years service, ill health obliged him to give up the charge, but 
in January, 1867, he resumed work at Arlington, 111., and later 
at Beulah and Coal Valley churches, 1868 — 1870 ; at Milan, 
111., 1871 — 1877; in Oilman, 111., 1878— 1880. He then 
served as pastor of the Presbyterian churches in Decatur, Mich., 
Hamburg, Iowa., Leon, la., Dallas Center, la., and Sidney, la., 
until May i, 1896, when he removed to California, and preached 
only occasionally, as the feeble state of his health would allow. 

While in California he renounced the reveries of a bachelor 
and was married to Mrs. Cornelia M. Barrows, at Pamalpair, 
July 15, 1896. She died Jan. 21, 1899. •'■''' 1900 he returned 
to Kansas City, Kan., where he has been abiding in the home 
of his sister at 1016 Ann avenue, quietly passing his days, with 
strength declining, and patiently awaiting the call of the Mas- 
ter to enter ''the Rest that remaineth for the people of God." 



John Orne, Jr., was born in Newburyport, Mass., April 29, 
1834. Since graduation he has been engaged in teaching, 
principally as sub-master in high schools, in Southampton, N. 
H., Newburyport, Salem and Cambridge, Mass. He was con- 
nected with the high school in Cambridge, as sub-master and 
teacher of physics, from 1867 until he retired from public 
teaching in 1900. His time is now mostly spent in study and 
investigation of Oriental subjects, but does some private teach- 
ing in Arabic language and literature. He holds an honorary 
position as curator of Arabic manuscripts in the Semitic museum 
at Harvard university. He is a member of the American 
Oriental society, Harvard Biblical club, Cambridge Art circle, 
and Boston Society of Natural History. He has written many 
papers for the Semitic conference of Harvard university and 
the Harvard Biblical club, some of which have been published 
in the magazines of the day. 

June 28, 1896, he received from Amherst the honorary de- 
gree of Ph.D. for "attainments in Arabic language and litera- 
ture." 

His wife, Louisa Fisk Lindsay of Salem, whom he married 
Nov. 28, 1867, is still his companion in life's journey, giving 
help and encouragement. 



Levi Sewall Packard, born in Spencer, Mass., June 7, 
1834, engaged in teaching from 1855 to 1896 ; at Chatham, 
N. Y., till 1859 ; then in Nassau, N. Y., one year ; Spencer- 
town, N. Y., three years ; West Stockbridge, Mass., three years; 
later was principal of the Charlton academy, Charlton, N. Y., 
until 1869, when he became superintendent of schools at Sara- 
toga Springs, N. Y., leaving there in 1882. 

In 1888, he removed to Pinebluff, N. C, then an absolute 
wilderness, now a pleasant, growing town, a really desirable 




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winter resort. Mr. Packard is now president of the board of 
trade and has a large family boarding house named Packard 
Square. 

His second wife, Marion P. Brown of Plattsburg, N. Y., 
whom he married June 26, 1877, and three of his six children, 
are living. His oldest son has been many years in the bank- 
ing business at Warrensburg, N. Y., and is now on his fourth 
term as county treasurer. 

James Challis Parsons wns born in Gloucester, Mass., 
Aug. 16, 1833. From 1S55 to 1857 he was principal of the 
high school at Marblehead, Mass., and from 1857 to 1859 was 
a member of the Divinity school of Harvard university. He 
was ordained June 6, i860, at Waltham, Mass., and was pastor 
of the Unitarian church there till 1864. In that year he be- 
came principal of the high school in that town, preaching occa- 
sionally until 1877. After a three years pastorate at Athol, 
Mass., he was appointed principal of the Prospect Hill School 
for Girls in Greentield, Mass., and continued in that office until 
the summer of 1896. Under his management the school 
gained steadily in the number of pupils, and attained an enviable 
reputation for the thoroughness of its work and the refining in- 
fluence of the school and home life. He also found time for 
considerable literary work in connection with his school duties, 
and contributed to various periodicals and magazines, especially 
to the iVc7o World and the Unitarian Rerie^u. He was the 
author of a book on English l^crsification, which has been used 
by several colleges, and of 2Vie Living Word, a compilation 
from the Scriptures for church and home use. 

On account of ill health he resigned the principalship of the 
school, and removed to West Bridgewater, Mass., and there de- 
voted himself to the composition of a work on The Conception 
of Theism. His death from myelitis occurred June 30, 1897. 



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His wife, Etta A. Blaisdell of Marblehead, Mass., whom he 
married Nov. 24, 1859, is Hving at 13 Farrar street, Cambridge, 
Mass. (in summer at Green Harbor, Mass.) Their three 
daughters are all living and are married. Abby Parsons Mac- 
Dufifie, Radclifife A. B., and John MacDufifie, Ph.D. (a graduate 
-of Harvard) are principals of the MacDufifie School, Spring- 
.'lield, Mass. They have three children, two daughters and one 
son. Sarah L. married Ralph Waldo GifTord, A. B. Harvard, 
. a lawyer of the firm of Villard, Gifford & Cox, New York city. 
They have four children, three sons and one daughter. Eliza- 
.beth C. married Professor Comfort Avery Adams, E. E., Law- 
.rence Scientific School, Harvard university. One son. 



Philip Chester Porter was born in Berkley, Mass., April 
1 7) ^^33- After graduation he engaged in teaching, and in 
this occupation spent the greater part of his life. He was 
principal of Dighton academy, 1855 — 1857 ; Reading high 
school, 1858 — 1860 ; Newton grammar school, 1861 ; Swamp- 
iscott grammar school, 1867 — 1873 ; high school in Medway, 
1875 — 1877, and of the high schools in Wrentham, Westmin- 
ister and Sutton (all in Mass.), several years in succession, 
until obliged by ill health to withdraw from teaching. In 
1863 and 1864 he was teacher of gymnastics in the public 
schools of Providence, R. I., and in the gymnasium in Detroit, 
Mich. He studied medicine in Michigan university, 1864 — 
1865, and in Berkshire Medical institute, 1865 — 1866, and re- 
ceived there the degree of M. D. He practiced his profession 
in Lenox, Mass., 1866 — 1867, and later in Lowell, 1873 — 1875. 
After his withdrawal from teaching, impelled by his own neces- 
sity to a course of investigation. Dr. Porter discovered and ap- 
plied a new principle in the construction of artificial legs. He 
.secured a patent in 1889, and devoted himself to the manufac- 




Erastus Ladd Prentice. 



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ture of this leg until his death from tuberculosis, in Berkley, 
Mass., Jan. 1 1, 1895. 

Dr. Porter was married, Maj- 26, 1869, to Marion J. Wood 
of Jordan, N. Y., who died in 1897. One child died in in- 
fancy. 

Erastus Ladd Prentice, born in Franklin, Conn., Aug. 20, 
1825, entered Amherst from Genesee college, Lima, N. Y., first 
term of Junior year, 1853. While in college he preached 
nearly every Sunday in the Methodist chapel in South Am- 
herst. After graduating he continued his theological studies 
and preaching at Kingston, N. Y., and was ordained by Bishop 
Simpson at the New York conference of the Methodist Episco- 
pal church at Poughkeepsie in June, 1856. He was stationed 
at Kingston, N. Y., 1856 — 1857 ; St. Paul's, New York city, 
1857 — 1858 ; Newburgh, N. Y., 1858 — 1859 ; the following 
years in succession at Chester, Matteawan, Tuckahoe, Pough- 
keepsie, Peekskill and Warwick, in the same state. 

It is the testimony of those most competent to judge that 
Mr. Prentice was a highly gifted and useful minister. His 
purity of life, kindness of spirit and earnest devotion to his 
work, together with his intellectual abilities, commanded uni- 
versal respect and admiration, in every place in which he min- 
istered. As a preacher, he was evangelical, forcible, eloquent 
and successful. He died at Warwick, N. Y., Feb. 28, 1873, 
after a short illness, of congestion of the brain. 

His wife, Ella M. Rogers of Kingston, N. Y., whom he mar- 
ried Oct. 12, 1858, is living in Brooklyn, N. Y., at 273 Quincy 
street. Their two children are both living. The daughter, 
Emma L., was married in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 15, 1887, to 
J. Graham Glover, an architect with office at 186 Remsen 
street. Her only child died twelve years ago. The son, Vin- 
cent R., is in business in New York, living in Brooklyn, is 
married and has one child. 



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Henry Baxter Prince, born in South Amherst, Mass., 
March i8, 1833, entered the scientific department in 1854, and 
left college before the end of the year. He became a farmer 
and later a merchant in Stillwater, Minn., where he died from 
disease of the kidneys, Aug. 3, 1900. 

His wife, Emily S. Fales of New London, N. H., whom he 
married Sept. 14, 1854, died in 1892. Of his four children, 
Willis is dead ; the others are living and married, Carrie, the 
eldest, in Minneapolis, Josie in Dakota, and Elliot H. in Still- 
water, Minn. 



Joseph Brown Reynolds was born in Rockport, Mass., 
Jan. 28, 1834. After graduation, he taught a short time in 
Concord, Mass., then went to Illinois and Missouri, but re- 
turned in 1857 and commenced the study of medicine with his 
father ; was for a time, also, in charge of an apothecary shop, 
and later took the degree of M. D. in the medical school of 
Harvard university in 1862, and the same year was appointed 
city physician to the Boston institutions at Deer Island. In 
April, 1863, he was commissioned as assistant surgeon of the 
49th regiment, Mass. Vols. He was in service at the battle of 
Port Hudson, and was in charge of the Theatre hospital at 
Baton Rouge when the regiment was mustered out of service. 
He then held the position of acting assistant surgeon in the 
United States army, by appointment of the department surgeon, 
and was in charge of various hospitals until failing health com- 
pelled him, in May, 1864, to retire from the service and to 
return to Massachusetts. Although in the army only one year, 
he endured more hardship and bore greater responsibilities than 
many who served a much longer time, performing his duties 
with credit and honor to himself and to the satisfaction of 
others. 




Henry Jackson Richardson. 



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In 1868 he went to New Salem, 111., and there practiced his 
profession until his death from disease contracted in the army 
service, Aug. 28, 187 i. 

On the 19th of February, 1868, he was married to Mary 
Ludlow of Griggsville, 111., who also had served a long time in 
the army. 

Henry Jackson Richardson was born in Middleton, Mass., 
June 23, 1S29. He taught one year in Topsfield academy, 
then entered Andover Theological seminary, where he graduated 
in 1859. On the 6th of September, i860, he was ordained and 
installed pastor of the First Congregational church in Lincoln, 
Mass. He was released from pastoral services May 10, 1892, 
on account of ill health, but continued in ofifice as pastor emeri- 
tus until his death from an attack of the grip, Dec. 19, 1893. 

He was married, June 26, 1864, to Mrs. Harriet A. (Colburn) 
French of St. Paul, Minn., formerly of Lincoln, Mass. She is 
still living in Lincoln, Mass. No children. 

Lewis Shearer, of St. Louis, Mo., was born in Buffalo, N. 
Y., May 18, 1832, entered Amherst in 185 1, remained one 
year, graduated LL.B. at Harvard Law school in 1855, and 
practiced his profession continuously in San Francisco, Cal., 
from November, 1855, until a few months previous to his death, 
which occurred in Oakland, Cal., Dec. 25, 1887. Oakland had 
been his place of residence since 1866. He edited Digest of 
California reports, held political positions, and was on the Re- 
publican State Central committee during the war. 

He was married, Nov. 15, 1859, to Helen Lawrence of Gro- 
ton, Mass., who, with three daughters, survived him. The 
eldest daughter graduated in 1885 from the University of Cali- 
fornia, is married and has two sons. The youngest daughter is 
also married and living in Oakland. The other is unmarried, 
and lives with her mother at 575 Merrimac street, Oakland, 
Cal. 



Horace Leonard Singleton was born at Portsmouth, Va., 
Dec. 27, 1833. After graduating, he studied theology at 
Princeton, 1856 — 1859, and was ordained by the Presbytery of 
Upper Missouri, October, 1860. He was pastor at Chillicothe, 
Mo., i860 — 1861, then became pastor of the Broadway Presby- 
terian church, Baltimore, Md., remaining one year, was at 
Bel Air, Md,, 1863 — 1864; at Baltimore, 1864 — 1865, and at 
Wilmington, N. C, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, 
from January, 1866, to October, 187 1. 

He was editor of Good Neius and Alliance, Baltimore, Md., 
1872 — 1874, and has been without charge since 1874, and has 
resided in New York city since 1887. 

He was joint author of The Monumental City ; its Fast His- 
tory and Present Resotirces. 

On Oct. 20, 1863, he was married to Martha Colgate Mor- 
ling of Baltimore, Md. They have two daughters. 

Charles Edward Spinney, born in Taunton, Mass., May 
24,1831, entered Amherst September, 1852, class of 1856; 
left the classical course in the third term of Junior year, studied 
civil engineering, and graduated in the scientific department 
(B. S.) in 1855. His occupation through life was teaching; in 
the high school, Lynn, Mass., 1855 — 1856 ; in a commercial 
college, Milwaukee, Wis., 1856^1861 ; as principal of public 
schools in Oconomowoc, Wis., 1861 — 1862, and in the public 
schools of Milwaukee, 1863 — 1886. In 1877, when the Four- 
teenth district school was dedicated, Mr. Spinney was chosen 
principal, and under his management it became one of the 
largest in the city and had a state reputation. It was the first 
school visited by the Italian and French commissioners when 
they came to Milwaukee to inspect the schools. This position 
he filled most acceptably until his death from pneumonia, Feb. 




Ezra Thompson Sprague. 



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28, 1 886. He was for some time assistant editor of the Mil- 
waukee Sc/ioo/ Monthly. 

Mr. Spinney was married, June 15, 1861, to Elsie H. Hall of 
Seattle, Wash., who, with three of their five children, is still 
living at 681 Marietta avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. The son is 
engaged in the typewriter business. Their two daughters are 
graduates of the Normal school in Milwaukee. 

Ezra Thompson Sprague was born in Windham, Conn., 
June 23, 1833. After teaching one year in West Killingly 
(now Danielsonville) academy (in which he prepared for college) 
he went to Madison, Wis., studied law and was admitted to the 
bar in December, 1857. He practiced his profession in that 
city until April, 186 1, when he enlisted as a private in the ist 
regiment Wisconsin volunteers. Three months later he was 
commissioned adjutant of the 8th Wisconsin, the famous 
" Eagle " regiment. In January, 1863, he was appointed adju- 
tant general of the brigade, and a few months later of the 
division. In July, 1864, he was commissioned colonel of the 
42d Wisconsin regiment, and served in that capacity till the 
end of the war. In September, 1864, he was stationed at 
Cairo, 111., as commander of the post, and in June, 1865, was 
brevetted brigadier general for " meritorious services during 
the war." He saw most of the hard service in clearing the 
Mississippi valley; was in the battle of J'redericktown, Mo., 
1861 ; the siege of Island No. 10 ; the battles of luka and 
Corinth, 1862 ; Jackson, Miss., 1863, and the siege of Vicks- 
burg, in the same year ; also at Pensacola and in the Red 
River expedition. He left the service in 1865. 

After the war he practiced law in De Pere, Wis., till 1870, 
when he was appointed circuit judge, but after fifteen months' 
service he was obliged by ill health to leave Wisconsin and go 
to the mountains. In 1873 he went to Utah, recovered his 



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health, resumed practice in Salt Lake City in 1875, holding 
also appointments as U. S. commissioner and register in bank- 
ruptcy. In 1876 he was appointed clerk of the supreme court, 
and held the office until his death from consumption, Dec. 30, 
1888. He was a trustee of Salt Lake academy from the time 
of its incorporation to the end of his life. 

" Judge Sprague stood high at the bar, and his kind dispo- 
sition and great integrity won for him the confidence, respect 
and esteem of all who knew him." 

His wife, Helen A. Crandall of Clinton, Wis. (originally from 
Connecticut), whom he married Nov. 20, i860, and four of their 
five children survived him. Her present address is 360 Center 
street. Salt Lake City, Utah. 

The oldest son is in business, is married, and has two chil- 
dren, son and daughter. The youngest son is a chemist, and 
took a special course at the State university, but did not grad- 
uate. The oldest daughter, a graduate of St. Marks, Salt Lake 
City, is librarian of the public library. The youngest daugh- 
ter, a graduate of Hammond Hall, is married and has three 
children. 

John Buffington Stickney, born in Lynn, Mass., May 25, 
1832, entered with the class in 185 1, remained four terms, was 
two terms in the class of 1856, and then went to Yale, where 
he graduated in 1856, He then read law with his father, and 
was admitted to the bar in New York in 1857. 

During the war he raised a company of volunteers, and en- 
tered the U. S. service, Aug. i, 1862, as 2d lieutenant, Co. A, 
35th Mass. Vols.; was promoted to the rank of ist lieutenant, 
Oct. I, 1862, and captain, June 17, 1863 ! was in the battles of 
Antietam, South Mountain and Fredericksburg, and distin- 
guished himself by his cool and courageous conduct. He acted 
as judge advocate and for a time as adjutant of his regiment. 




Edward Alexander Strong. 



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He was discharged June 7, 1864. In 1869 he went to St. 
Augustine, Fla., where he practiced his profession and was ap- 
pointed state attorney for the Sixth judicial circuit of Florida. 
He died at Washington, D. C, in 1882. He received the de- 
gree of M. A. from Yale in 1870. 

Mr. Stickney was married, Nov. 10, 1863, to Carrie F. Rust 
of Boston, Mass. 

Edward Alexander Strong was born in Boston, Mass., 
Dec. 10, 1834. The year subsequent to graduation he spent 
in travel abroad, including a trip to Egypt and Palestine. 
After his return he entered Andover Theological seminary, but 
at the end of one term relinquished professional study, in con- 
sequence of ill health, and after spending the summer in efforts 
to recruit his health, he engaged in business with his father 
(and subsequently alone), as manufacturer and wholesale dealer 
in boots and shoes at 97 and 99 Pearl street, Boston. In 1867 
he spent nine months in a general tour of Europe with his wife, 
and in [874 went abroad the third time on a summer trip for 
his health. He has also traveled extensively in this country, 
west and south, and to California in 1878. 

He retired from active business in 1882, and went abroad 
with his family in that year, and again in 1883, but then chiefly 
for medical treatment. In the years since, as well as before, 
he has been interested as director in banks and other corpora- 
tions and in the care of trust estates. He served tive years, 
1885 — 1890, on the board of trustees of Amherst college. In- 
creasing deafness in recent years has led him to give up all 
positions of outside responsibility. For many years past he 
has been an Episcopalian, and is now a member of the parish 
of Trinity church. 

His wife, Marion H. Clarke of Brookline, Mass., whom 
he married June 10, 1858, and their two children are all 



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living. His son, George A. (Amherst, 1880) is now rector of 
Christ (Episcopal) church in New York city, and has three 
■children. His daughter, Ellen C, is wife of Prof. William 
Bullock Clarke (Amherst, 1884) oi Johns Hopkins university, 
and has four children. 

Chauncev Boardman Thomas was born in New Salem, 
Mass., Sept. 7, 1834. After graduation, he engaged in teach- 
ing, one year in Mr. E. Hall's family boarding school in Elling- 
ton, Conn., then in a select school in Westfield, Mass., one 
term. He entered Andover Theological seminary, September, 
1857, and graduated there in i860, having been absent several 
months in the summer of 1859, during which he took a trip to 
Europe for his health. He served as city missionary in Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y., from October, i860, to June, 1862, when he was 
-appointed hospital chaplain in the U. S. army, and served one 
year and a half at Alexandria, Va., and two years and a half 
at New Orleans, La. From June, 1866, to October, 1868, he 
was acting pastor of the Salem Congregational church in Chi- 
cago, 111,, then acting pastor of the Congregational church in 
Peru, 111., till April, 1872, when, owing to ill health, he re- 
signed and removed to Amherst, Mass., where he remained 
about four years, recruiting and preaching occasionally as 
he was able. In 1876, he accepted a call to the Congrega- 
tional church in Glover, Vt., where he was installed Jan. 24, 
1878, and remained nearly four years, until obliged by ill health 
he returned to Amherst, Mass., where he died of marasmus at 
the home of his brother, Jan. 20, 1881. 

His wife, Kate Storm of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., whom he 
married Jan. 28, 1863, died in Amherst, May 15, 1903. Their 
son, Chauncey Rapelje Thomas, is an artist, a graduate of 
Pratt institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., at present in Alfred university, 
JSJ. Y. P. O. address, Amherst, Mass. 



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Richard Albra Waldron of Dover, N. H., was born May 
1832, entered Amherst with the class in 185 1, and left at the 
close of the first term Sophomore year, " took dismission for 
Brunswick." He studied at " some western college," became 
a physician, and practiced his profession in several places, and 
from 1873 in Nottingham, Wells county, Ind. " He was a 
good doctor and well thought of by all." He died in Notting- 
ham, Ind., Aug. 7, 1900, and was buried at Dover, N. H. 

His wife, Miriam Griest, a native of Pennsylvania, whom he 
married Sept. 12, 1874, had been dead many years. Their 
only child, Mary R., is the wife of W. E. Grant, of The Cross 
Company, East Milton, Mass. 

Charles Henry Walton, born at Sherbrooke, C. E., June 
12, 1834, entered the class as a Junior, in 1853, from the Uni- 
versity of Vermont. For six years after graduation the time 
was spent principally in New York city and at New Haven, 
Conn., but his poor health rendered continuous application to 
anything almost impossible. 

In the autumn of 1861 he enlisted in the army, and was 
commissioned ist lieutenant in the 6th N. Y. Vols., and on 
joining his regiment at Santa Rosa Island, Fla., he was ap- 
pointed acting assistant quartermaster, a position which he 
held till his health obliged him to leave the army near the close 
of the year 1862. After five years with a publishing house in 
New York city, he went to Jacksonville, Fla., and in June, 
1868, to Tallahassee, where he became proprietor and editor of 
the Tallahassee Sentinel, tlien a democratic or rebel paper, 
hoisted the names of Grant and Colfax, and engaged in re- 
construction to the best of his ability. 

Later he returned to Jacksonville and took charge of the 
Florida Agricniturist, a position which he held until his death 
from consumption, June 27, 1877. 



Mr. Walton was married, May 7, 1859, to Margaret Hughes 
of Brooklyn, N. Y., who, with two children, a son and daugh- 
ter, survived him. They returned to Brooklyn, N. Y. His 
father's family has lost trace of them. 

George Washburn was born in Middleboro, Mass., March 
T, 1833. The first year after graduation was spent in travel- 
ing abroad, in Europe, Egypt and Palestine, in company with 
-classmate Strong, Professor Tyler and Richard Mather of '57. 
After another year of travel in America, he entered Andover 
Theological seminary, but on account of ill health remained 
only one year. From 1858 to 1862, he was treasurer of the 
A. B. C. F. M. in Constantinople, Turkey, and was licensed to 
preach there in i860. In May, 1862, he returned to America, 
spent a year at Andover attending lectures of the middle and 
senior classes, as resident licentiate, was ordained July 29, 
1863, at Middleboro, and returned to Constantinople as mis- 
sionary of the A. B. C. F. M. This position he held five years, 
working twelve hours a day, preaching every Sunday, doing the 
financial work of the board in that city, studying Turkish, 
writing sermons, helping edit two newspapers, writing more or 
less every month for the periodical press of England and 
America, corresponding constantly with all the missionaries in 
Turkey and with one or two English societies in London. In 
1868 he resigned his connection with the board and returned 
to America, where he spent several months visiting the princi- 
pal cities and towns, delivering addresses, speaking in behalf 
of missions and making special efforts to awaken an interest in 
the subject of woman's work in the church. 

In the spring of 1869 he returned to Constantinople as pro- 
fessor of mental and moral philosophy in Robert college, a 
position which he still holds. He was also director of the col- 
lege, 187 1 — 1872 ; acting president, 1872 — 1877, and presi- 




George Washburn. 



dent, 1877 — 1903. In 1904, he returned to the United States, 
still holding his position as professor, and is now engaged in 
raising an endowment for the college. He received the degree 
of D. U. from Amherst in 1874 and LL.D. in 1900. He also 
received the degree of LL.D. from Princeton and Michigan 
universities, and an offer of the same from the University of 
Pennsylvania, which he has not yet had the opportunity to for- 
mally receive. 

During all his life in Constantinople, 1858 — 1904, he has 
interested himself in everything which concerned the welfare of 
the different nationalities of the Turkish empire, and while he 
has never favored revolution or sedition, and has never held 
any official diplomatic position, he has been generally recog- 
nized as an authority and a power in the changes which have 
taken place during the last forty years in the East, especially 
in Bulgaria. The first Bulgarian national assembly passed a 
resolution thanking him for what he had done for the elevation 
of the Bulgarian people, and in securing their independence. 
Prince Alexander conferred on him the order of St. Alexander, 
and Prince Ferdinand, that of Civil Merit, a distinguished 
honor. The Greek and Armenian patriarchs of Constantino- 
ple, when he left Europe last summer, gave him their blessing 
and the thanks of their churches and their peoples for what he 
had done for them. Other special addresses were presented to 
him, by the faculty, the trustees and the alumni of the college, 
by the English and American residents, headed by the British 
ambassador and the American minister. 

The following editorial notice of Dr. Washburn, his work and 
influence, appeared in the Coiigregafiona/ist, May 3, 1902 : 

" No living American, in our judgment, exercises a greater 
influence in the Levant, or is better acquainted with the life of 
all the vast region of which Turkey has been or is the ruler 
and of which Constantinople is the national center, than Dr. 



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George Washburn. Many Americans, much better known in 
their own country, have had far less to do in shaping the affairs 
of the world than he. It is for this reason that we place his 
portrait on our cover page. As president of Robert college, he 
has sent forth a picked army of young men of many nationali- 
ties impressed by the ideas and purposes of a broad-minded, 
noble Christian educator and statesman. His home over- 
looking the Bosporus is one of the most picturesque and beau- 
tiful spots to be found in all the world. The life which moves 
on around him is always of intense interest, and often sur- 
charged with suppressed excitement. But in the midst of it he 
patiently and calmly carries on the work of the institution of 
which he is the head and plans for future years, while he is the 
friend and counselor of representatives of great nations. Pro- 
fessor Hamlin in his characterization of him on another page 
does not make too strong a statement when he says in his clos- 
ing sentence, ' Perhaps none among them all wields an in- 
fluence of wider ultimate outreach than Dr. Washburn.' " 

April 15, 1859, he married Henrietta L. Hamlin of Constan- 
tinople. " The wisest thing he ever did." She is still his 
companion, counselor and helper. Of their three children two 
died in infancy. The eldest, George Hamlin, graduated at 
Amherst in 1882, received M. D. at Harvard in 1885, and has 
since been practicing his profession in Boston, is married and 
has five children. 

His picture is from a photograph taken at Constantinople in 
1893. When sending it he wrote : " Excuse the decoration. 
This photograph was taken for the boys, who like to see that I 
value this honor given by Prince Alexander of Bulgaria." 

Benjamin Franklin Webster, born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 
29, 1835, entered Amherst in January, 1853, from the school 
of Edward Wyman, LL.D., in St. Louis, Mo. After graduat- 



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ing he taught school one year in St. Louis, and one year in 
Monticello, 111. During the years 1857 and 1861 he was editor 
of the Daily Courier^ Alton, 111. He studied law in St. Louis, 
1858 — 1859, was admitted to the bar in November, 1859, and 
practiced his profession in Alton, 111., until 1866. Within this 
period he was correspondent of the New York Hera hi w'xXh the 
Army of the Cumberland, 1861 — 1863, and confidential clerk 
of the assistant secretary of war, 1S63 — 1864. In September, 
1867, after a severe and protracted illness, he resumed the 
practice of law in St. Louis, devoting himself particularly to 
real estate law and the examination of titles, with great success 
until his death from heart failure, Nov. 2, 1903. 

He was the founder of the Sterling & Webster Abstract Com- 
pany, and its president from 1882 to 1S92. He was a member 
of the State Senate from 1885 to 1889, and was the author of 
Annals of the Army of tlie Ciiml>erland, published in 1867. 

His wife, Mary El Bragg of St. Louis, Mo., whom he mar- 
ried Sept. 3, 1868, died Dec. 29, 1902. Of their three surviv- 
ing children, the oldest, George B., was a member of the class 
of 18S9 (A. C.) during four terms, and is now a lawyer in St. 
Louis (Lincoln Trust building). The older daughter, Mrs. 
Rhoda A. Rukert, a widow with three children, lives in Waynes- 
ville, N. C; the younger, Mrs. S. Hurley von Ruck, lives in 
Asheville, N. C. One son, Benjamin F., died at the age of 
seven years. 

Henry Martin Wheeler, born in Worcester, Mass., Aug. 7, 
1830, entered Amherst with the class, and left at the end of 
Freshman year. He was for some time a member of Brown 
university, and in 1861 became assistant secretary of the State 
Mutual Life Assurance company of \\'orcester. He was the 
author of Report of Worcester Y. M. C. A., 1868 — 1869, and 
1869 — 1870. At present he has no home, but spends part of 



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his time at Wellesley Farms and a part with his daughter at 
73 Bartlett street, Andover, Mass. 

His wife, Sarah H. Wilcox, whom he married June 13, 1854, 
died Aug. 21, 1896. Two of tlieir children "have gone on 
before " them. Their son, Henry Huntington Wheeler, grad- 
uated at Amherst in the class of 1877, and is a fruit farmer 
living in Pomona, Cal. 

Ozi William Whitaker, born in New Salem, Mass., May 
ID, 1830, entered Amherst with the class, and left at the end of 
the first term Sophomore year, on account of lack of funds. 
He taught one year in New Salem academy, then entered Mid- 
dlebury college in 1854 and graduated in 1856. The next 
four years were passed in teaching, as principal of the high 
schools in Marlboro and North Brookfield. After completing 
the full course of three years in the General Theological semi- 
nary in New York, he was ordained deacon and priest, in Bos- 
ton, in 1863. From 1863 to 1865 he was rector of St. John's 
church, Gold Hill, Nev., then of St. Paul's church, Englewood, 
N. J., 1865 — 1867, and of St. Paul's church, Virginia City, 
Nev., 1867 — 1869. In October, 1869, he was consecrated, in 
New York, missionary bishop of Nevada and Arizona. 

Most of the time for the next six years was spent in hard, 
active, missionary work in that field, and from 1875 to 1886 in 
Nevada, with residence in Virginia City. In 1876 he estab- 
lished a diocesan school for girls at Reno, Nev. During the 
ten years which followed, the school grew to be a power and 
educational influence in the state. Several hundred girls were 
educated there who are now scattered from southern California 
to Washington and from the Pacific to the Rocky Mountains. 
The school exerted a powerful influence in the formation of 
womanly character, and is held in affectionate remembrance by 
all its students. An association of alumnae has been formed in 




Ozi Wii.LiAM VVhitaker. 



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San Francisco and one in Reno, Nev. In 1886 he was elected 
assistant bishop of the diocese of Pennsylvania, and entered 
upon the discharge of his duties the 1st of November in that 
year. In the following June, on the death of Bishop Stevens, 
he became bishop of the diocese. He shrank from assuming 
such great responsibility, but the uniform kindness with which 
he was received, and has since been treated by the clergy and 
laity, has been the great encouragement and comfort. The 
volume of labor involved has taxed his resources to the utmost. 

In 1 90 1 he had a severe attack of nervous prostration, from 
which he recovered very slowly, and was unable to do any work 
for about a year. The diocese gave him a year's leave of ab- 
sence, and elected a bishop coadjutor, the Rt. Rev. Alexander 
Mackay-Smith, D. D. After spending the greater part of a 
year in California, he took up his work again, and has been 
able to continue it to the present time with the sympathetic 
and valuable help given by his coadjutor. The diocese has 
two hundred congregations, two hundred and eighty clergy, and 
many institutions, each making a greater or less demand upon 
the bishop's time and strength. It is the second largest diocese 
of the Episcopal church in the United States, of which he has 
now been bishop eighteen years, becoming as thoroughly iden- 
tified with its work and interests as with that of the Pacific 
coast during the seventeen years in which he was missionary 
bishop of Nevada. He has published occasional sermons and 
addresses. He received the degree of D.D. from Kenyon col- 
lege in 1869, and the degree of LL.D. from the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1898. 

His wife, Julia Chester of New York city, whom he married 
Aug. 31, 1865, is still the light of his happy home. They have 
had no children. 

Benjamin Franklin Williams, from Cincinnati, Ohio, en- 
tered the scientific department in 1854, and departed before 
the end of the year, leaving no record. 



John Loren Wilson was born at Macomb, St. Lawrence 
county, N. Y., April 17, 1829. From 1855 to 1862 he was en- 
gaged in teaching in the public schools in or near the city of 
Springfield, 111. On the 5th of August, 1862, he enlisted as a 
private, and in ten days, through his influence, a company was 
formed, of which he was elected captain, and mustered into the 
114th 111. Vol. Infantry. He served at Memphis and Vicks- 
burg under Gen. Grant ; was promoted assistant provost mar- 
shal at Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 27, 1864, and provost marshal 
in October, 1864. He was able to report for duty every day, 
was never captured or wounded, though many of his company 
fell at his side in battle and by disease in the swamps and 
trenches at Vicksburg, while others were in Southern prisons. 

After the war he spent one year in teaching, then engaged 
in business, but finding the results unsatisfactory he made sev- 
eral trips to the far west, and finally purchased a farm and re- 
moved to Waco, York county. Neb., in February, 1879. ^^ 
has enjoyed farming and been very successful. He has en- 
gaged in Christian work in connection with Sunday schools, 
organizing and helping to sustain them in country places. 

Dec. 5, 1878, he married Mary A. Keyes of Pana, 111., who 
with an infant son died Jan. i, 1880. 

On Oct. 13, 1 88 1, he married Mrs. E. C. Bresee, whom he 
had known in his old home in DePeyster, N. Y., having two 
small children. They have one daughter, Lorena M., born 
June 7, 1886. 

He was elected county commissioner in 1884, and in 1886 
was elected to the Nebraska legislature as a representative 
from the county of York for two years. Since that time he has 
filled minor offices in the township and county as long as health 
permitted. He is in feeble health, but has a pleasant home 
and the tender care of a noble wife and daughter to cheer and 
comfort him. He has tried to do his duty in all stations and 
looks forward with hope and confidence. 




John Loren Wilson. 



Henry Dwight Woodworth was born in Lebanon, Conn,, 
Feb. i8, 1826. After graduation he was professor of mathe- 
matics in Paducah college, Ky., one year, and a teacher in 
North Scituate, R. I,, one year. He then entered Andover 
Theological seminary and graduated there in i860. He was 
ordained at East Bridgevvater, Mass., Sept. 12, i860, and was 
pastor of the Union church of East and West Bridgewater 
until 1862 ; then was acting pastor at Wellesley, 1863 — 1865 ; 
city missionary in Boston, 1866—1867 ; pastor at Westford, 
1867 — i86g, and pastor at Rehoboth, 1870 — 1873, all in the 
same state. 

On account of ill health he was without charge from 1873 to 
1887, residing in East Cambridge, Mass. A part of that time, 
1877 — 1887, he was engaged in the jewelry business in Bos- 
ton. Re-entering the work of the ministry, he was acting pas- 
tor at North Falmouth, Mass., 1888 — 1890, and at East Granby, 
Conn., from 1890 until his death there from heart failure, con- 
sequent upon an attack of the grip, June 27, 189 1. 

His wife, Sarah E. Carkin of Brookfield, Mass., whom he 
married Aug. 14, 1855, died Aug. 27, 1884. Of their three 
sons, James A. died Jan. 30, 1903 ; Horace S. is married, and 
has two daughters ; Henry L. is unmarried and lives with his 
brother at 15 Tenney street, North Cambridge, Mass. 




Henry Dwight Wood worth. 



Ibistorical Supplement. 



The class of '55 was the first class to form a regular class 
organization in college. This was formed early in Senior year, 
and George Washburn was elected our first class president. 
Just before graduation a set of new officers were elected — C. 
H. Buck, president, and J. C. Caldwell, secretary. 

Our Class Day, the day of all other days in college life, was 
celebrated at the beginning of the Senior vacation, six weeks 
before Commencement, when examinations had been passed 
and all college duties ended. The exercises of the day began 
with a class prayer meeting at 8 a. u. in the Senior room. 
Later in the morning the various recitation rooms were visited, 
where mock recitations were heard by members of the class, 
who had been chosen to personify the different professors. 
The public exercises, commencing at 2.30 p. m., included an 
oration, " delivered with energy, grace and effect," by Matthew 
McClung, on the subject, " Influence of the Lawyer upon So- 
ciety ; " then a song, composed for the occasion, was sung. 
This was probably the origin of the " Class Ode," though the 
Odist does not appear as a distinct Class Day officer until 

1859- 

The exercises in the church closed with the singing of "Auld 

Lang Syne " by the class, after which they retired to the grove 

to smoke the pipe of peace and spend a jovial hour. 

At 8 p. M., with Rufus Choate, Jr., as marshal, the class 

formed in procession, with a band of music, and marched to 



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the residences of the president and professors, where farewell 
words were spoken by Kelsey, Caldwell, Denison, Jefferds, 
Graves, Howard, Washburn, Parsons and Harris. At eleven, 
the class retired to the American House, where the " class sup- 
per " had been prepared by the proprietor, R. S. Lincoln. 
After the banquet followed the " feast of reason and flow of 
soul," with Dixi C. Hoyt as toastmaster. At five a. m. an ad- 
journment was made to the Senior recitation room, where the 
time was spent in reciting stories of experiences until the hour 
for morning prayer, when all went into the chapel, took their 
accustomed seats for the last time, and received the benediction 
of their beloved President Stearns. 



dlass IRcunions, 

Previous to the semi-centennial meeting there have been six 
regular reunions. 

The first, the triennial, was held in the tutor's room in South 
college. But few were present except those who returned for 
the second degree. There was no banquet. Those present 
re-elected C. H. Buck president, J. C. Caldwell secretary, and 
appointed W. L. Montague assistant secretary, and voted to 
meet again in 1865. 

At the second meeting, the decennial, held at the house of 
their classmate, Montague, there were present twenty of " the 
old roll of '55," with twelve ladies, wives of members of the 
class. An entertainment was given, the same class officers 
were re-elected, and it was voted to meet again and celebrate 
our vigintennial in 1875. 

At the third re-union, July 6, 1875, there were present F. F. 
Brown, Dickinson, Dunlap, Farman, Hardon, Harris, Hartwell, 
^Howard, Jocelyn, Kelsey, Lord, Montague, Orne, Porter, 



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Richardson, Strong, Thomas, Walton, Webster and Wheeler, 
twenty classmates, with nine ladies, wives of members of the 
class. 

It was not one reunion simply, but a delightful series of re- 
unions, a protracted meeting of three days. The first gather- 
ing was at the home of Professor Montague, the third at the 
home of Professor Harris. On both occasions an entertain- 
ment was given. The class supper was at the Amherst House. 

At this reunion it was voted to establish a " prize scholar- 
ship of the class of '55," the annual income of which should be 
given to the two members of the Junior class who should have 
made the greatest improvement respectively in the departments 
of French and Chemistry, as determined by the professors in 
said departments. It was also voted to meet again on Tuesday 
of Commencement week in 1880, and the following officers were 
chosen for five years : President, E. A. Strong of Boston ; 
vice-president, E. P. Harris of Amherst ; secretary, W. L. 
Montague of Amherst. 

At the fourth (quarter-centennial) reunion there were present 
sixteen members of the class, fourteen ladies, and the sons of 
Hughitt, Nason and Washburn. A complete report of this re- 
union, from the pen of Brother Howard, may be found in the 
"Quarter-centennial Record of the Class of Fifty-five," also the 
address of welcome by Brother Strong, and the poem by 
Brother Parsons. It was voted to meet again in five years 
(1885), and the following class officers were elected : E. P. 
Harris, president ; A. S. Fiske, vice-president ; W. L. Mon- 
tague, secretary. 

At the fifth reunion, June 30, 1S85, in the home of the secre- 
tary, there were present Bissell, F. F. Brown and wife, Colton, 
wife and two daughters, Dickinson, Fiske, Hallock and daugh- 
ter, Howard, Jocelyn, wife and adopted daughter, Montague 



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and wife, Strong, Webster and Woodworth, also Mrs. Thomas 
and son. The old class officers were re-elected. 

The sixth regular reunion was held June 25, 1895, at the 
new house of Brother Dickinson, on Sunset avenue. There 
were present Boardman and son, Colton, Derby, Dickinson, 
wife and son, Dunlap, Fiske, Graves, Hardon, Harris and wife, 
Howard, wife and daughter. Lord and wife, Montague and 
wife, Strong and Mrs. Thomas. 

At six o'clock we adjourned to the Amherst House for the 
" class supper." 

THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL. 

The semi-centennial reunion was considered by all present 
as a wonderful event, a happy success. As the days go by it 
will be a most precious recollection. That eighteen men out 
of thirty, scattered over the country and in other lands, should 
meet after fifty years was really something remarkable. The 
enforced absence of some was a matter of deep regret. One, 
detained by illness, wrote : " It was the greatest disappoint- 
ment of my life ; it is hard to be reconciled to it." 

The first to appear at headquarters, the house of the secre- 
tary, on June 23, was Matthew McClung of Knoxville, Tenn., 
who had not been in Amherst before since he graduated in 
1855. The occasion was to him one of pure enjoyment., of 
which he writes, " My trip to Amherst will remain with me to 
the end as decidedly the one trip of my Hfe." Bridgman, from 
Pekin, 111., and Farman, from Warsaw, N. Y., came on Satur- 
day, others on Monday, but the first general meeting was on 
Tuesday morning, and proved to be one of the most enjoyable 
features of the reunion. It was well worth a long journey to 
take part in the greetings, the hand-shaking, of each new- 
comer as they came one after another into the home of the 
secretary ; to note the study of faces, the effort to recognize 



the boy of twenty years in the " old boy " of three score years 
and ten. In most cases the effort was successful, though time 
and toil had made great changes. A report was made in re- 
gard to the " prize scholarship," from which it appeared that 
$2500 had been paid to students in scholarships and prizes, 
and that a balance of $1150 had been transferred to the treas- 
urer of the college. It was then voted that the word " prize " 
be dropped from the name of the scholarship, and that the 
annual income be assigned to some student who may be recom- 
mended by Professor Harris, while he remains connected with 
the college, and by the scholarship committee of the faculty 
thereafter. Also voted, that the secretary prepare and publish 
for classmates and friends a " Half Century Record of the 
Class of 1855," including all non-graduate members; also, to 
include half-tone pictures of those who would pay the extra 
expense of the plates and printing. 

Mr. Kelsey then offered the following : " I am not aware, 
Mr. President, that we, as a class, have ever given our brother. 
Professor Montague, who has so long acted as class secretary, 
any expression of our appreciation of his services in our be- 
half. They have been long, unremitting and of exceeding 
value. We owe him much, and it is due to him and to us that 
we make him know and feel it. I therefore move that, as the 
least we can do, we give him a vote of thanks as roundly and 
as heartily as it is possible for us to do it. This was passed 
heartily and unanimously by a rising vote. 

The seventeen then present took places in front of the 
veranda for a group photograph, as may be seen on the oppo- 
site page, in the following order, reading from left to right : 
First row, sitting — Colton, Boardman, Montague, Harris, Mc- 
Clung, Washburn, Hallock. Second row, standing — Fitch 
(leaning against the tree), Dunlap, Howard, Eridgman, Far- 
man, Derby, Buck, Kelsey, Graves, Fiske. Brother Lord, de- 
tained in Boston by business, arrived after the picture was taken. 



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Of the other exercises of the reunion on June 27 and 28, 
Rev. Asa S. Fiske wrote the following report : 

" In the afternoon at four o'clock we were gathered for a 
gracious reception at the residence of our classmate and class 
president, Professor Harris, who bothered us with no chemical 
analyses, but took us all in and covered us and filled us as well 
with courtesies, in which he was gracefully assisted by his wife, 
daughter and sons. At this reception the beloved Professor 
Crowell gladdened us by his presence, and grasping each by 
the hand declared that he was delighted to ^^ see''' us, though 
that vision was but with the eyes of the soul in the light of other 
days. (He has been blind many years.) After this reception 
we all trolleyed to our quiet little inn, under the slopes of Mt. 
Toby. 

There, after the divine blessing had been invoked by Dr. 
Washburn, we partook, the favored eighteen, of a most admira- 
bly prepared, bountiful and delicious supper. 

" With reminiscence and fun and all sorts of jokes, all went 
as merrily as did that other feast fifty years agone. All hearts 
seemed as young and as warm as then, though hairs were gray 
or thin. After the feast we adjourned to the new library pre- 
sented to the town of Sunderland by our generous classmate, 
John L. Graves, a beautiful building filled with well chosen 
books and periodicals, and endowed by the donor in perpetuity 
for good service to his native town in grateful memory of his 
father and mother. Here we passed happy hours under the 
leadership of President Harris. Dr. Hasket Derby, our vale- 
dictorian, showed himself a poet and gave us a poem which 
speaks handsomely for itself in this booklet. Matt McClung, 
confederate chief of artillery in Bragg's army, gave us a finely 
patriotic specimen of the feeling of a representative of the old 
South and the new South as well, and was most enthusiastically 
applauded by every man of us. (A copy was requested for the 



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Record, but he reports that the manuscript was lost when re- 
turning from the supper.) Howard, too, from mathematician 
turned poet of no mean inspiration, as may be seen on other 
pages. President Washburn was wise and thoughtful ; Far- 
man, diplomatist, author and jurist, was too modest to talk; 
Montague, the faithful and laborious secretary, disclaimed any 
desert of the meed of praise so liberally bestowed. But time 
was too short for going over the old boy-days of college life. 
Through all, it was clear advancing years were not throwing a 
pall over the spirits of these old boys. Ripening time, matur- 
ing powers, rich experiences of life, had sobered but not sad- 
dened. It was easy to see that the deeper and fuller joys were 
replacing the earlier jubilations. We were growing young in 
spirit as we go up toward the eternal youth and buoyant in 
hope as we approach the final fruition. 

"Wednesday morning we held a final meeting given to merry 
reminiscences of college days and life touches of later years, 
also listened to the reading of letters of regret at not being able 
to be present from eleven of our classmates and from four of 
our non-graduate members. W^e all realized that it was indeed 
a strange thing that thirty out of the fifty-six men who gradu- 
ated fifty years ago are yet in the land of the living. Forming 
a circle, with Board man as leader, we joined in a prayer of 
thanksgiving to God, then looked into each other's eyes, renew- 
ing brotherhood, clasped hands for most of us for the last time, 
but expecting to meet again — by and by — not then the eighteen 
or the thirty, but the fifty-six men of '55. Grant it in Thy 
grace, Blessed Lard. 



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poem bp Rasket Derbp, l». D^ 

[Read at the semi-centennial reunion of the class of '55, 
June 27, 1905.] 

Once more we tread familiar ground, once more do we descry 
The ancient line of serried peaks against the southern sky, 
The river courses through the plain, the fields in sunlight glow. 
All nature greets us with the smile of fifty years ago. 

Since then we climbed the hill of life, the summit reached and passed, 
Adown the western slope we speed, the shades are falling fast. 
How short is our allotted span, for though the end is near. 
The self same voice that vale said with salve greets you here. 

The blood of age is growing cold and fiows a sluggish stream, 
The fires of youth that warmed it once no longer leap and gleam. 
But rake- the ashes o'er, my friends, perchance we then may find 
Some glowing coals of memory, all lingering behind. 

On wintry morn, at early dawn, we climbed the College Hill, 
That dolefulTcnell of chapel bell, methinks I hear it still. 
And in my dream I ever seem to be the sport of fate, 
The third alarm has died away and I arrive too late. 

The good old Prex, I see him yet, I hear him pray and preach, 
How fondly still do we recall those little tricks of speech. 
For time with him " on eagle's wings " its steady course did hold, 
" On slippery rocks the sinners stood, while fiery billows rolled." 

He took us where the mastadon had trod Silurian ground, 

Where plesiosaurus wooed his bride and mammoths frisked around. 

Where pterodactyls loved to fly and monsters huge to roam, 

He' found their footprints on the rocks, and bade us bear them home. 



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Think of that winter Sunday when, after prayer and hymn, 
Prof. Tyler rose behind the desk, so kind and yet so grim. 
He thundered forth his chosen text in tone of withering scorn, 
" When will the Sabbath day be done, that we may sell our corn ? " 

Mind you how on Professor Clark we played our little game ? 
Mt. Holyoke our rendezvous and botany our aim. 
How, by a strange coincidence, South Hadley sent its host. 
Of all the flowers we culled that day the tulips pleased us most. 

The President received in state the class of fifty-six. 
Their enemies, he knew right well, were full of knavish tricks. 
For fear lest wicked Sophomores that night abroad should roam. 
Each member of the Faculty convoyed a Freshman home. 

There mounted up South College steps a stripling and his guide, 

Alack a day ! they noted not a window opened wide ; 

Down came a rushing cataract and drenched them through and 
through. 

" Who rooms up there ? ■' Prof. Warner cried, as dripping he with- 
drew. 

That gentle spirit whom we mocked has passed away from earth. 
As boys we jeered, as men we grew to know his simple worth. 
Though quaint of garb and strange of speech, no truer man was seen. 
Green be the grass he lies beneath, his memory ever green. 

Long since their earthly race was run, no more they greet us here. 
Those teachers true, and yet to me their presence still is near, 
I look to meet them on the street, once more to live they seem, 
These upstart men who don their robes are figures in a dream. 

The sober Jewett goes his way, on Tacitus intent, 

The gentle Haven passes on, his gaze is earthward bent. 

Anon we spy a slender form, we knew and loved him well, 

And feared him, too, for all of you have quailed before Prof. Snell. 

1 wonder if the rules today are like the rules of yore, 

I wonder if the boys may dance, they never did before. 

For us the law Draconian, "who dancing school attends 

In term time, shall be fined, reproved, or sent back to his friends." 



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I wonder if they play at cards, exposed to public gaze, 
Or close the blinds and draw the shades, as in the ancient days. 
I wonder if they crib from Bohns, the rascals that they are, 
I wonder if the boys are made to study in Kai Gar. 

J wonder if the monitors still mark the roll at prayer. 

Ah me ! the roll of fifty-five, full many a blank is there ; 

Bell, Bennett, Bissell, Boardman, Brown ; where are they all today ? 

Choate, Colton, Converse ; three are left, the rest have passed away. 

The few who linger round this board have passed the years of man, 
The Psalmist's tale is all complete, short future now to scan. 
Close up the ranks, ye veterans, the battle front we line. 
The shot and shell come thick and fast, perchance the next is mine. 

Too long my screed has wearied you, forgive its halting rhyme. 
And now we part, to meet no more upon the shore of time. 
But, stirsum coi'da,hrothtrs> dear, lift up your hearts on high. 
Ad Domi7nuin habemus, I hear the glad reply. 

We lift them up unto the Lord, He gives us length of days, 
His loving care will guide us yet in all our different ways. 
We pray He still may bless us here until our lives shall cease, 
And grant our brethren passed away refreshment, light and peace. 



poem bp Rei), l». S. Roioard. 

[Read at the reunion of '55, June 27, 1905.] 
Mofituji Saliitamiis. 

A poet worthy of the name 

Whose thoughts enshrined are household words. 
That thrill and echo in the heart 

Like twilight song of singing birds. 

When fifty years had swiftly fled 
As shade from out the morning sky, 

His few surviving comrades hailed 
With, " We who are about to die." 



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I venture not to draw the bow 

Which stronger arms than mine have bent, 
Nor aim to reach the lofty heights 

Of grand and noble sentiment. 

But rather in a quiet way, 

With those who with me yet survive, 
To breathe of hopes that will not die, 

But ever and forever live. 

As one who on the mountain top 

Has reached the summit of his hopes, 

Looks down the long and weary path 
That winds across the rugged slopes, 

And then out on the vast domain 
That stretches far, and wide, and clear. 

And upward to the vaster skies 
That close around a hemisphere. 

We meet tonight across the years 

Which have so quickly come and gone. 

From southern plains and prairies vast. 
From fields of honor and renown. 

From where the Bosporus sparkles bright. 
And Egypt lifts its ruined pride. 

From battle front where valiant men 
For freedom and for truth have died. 

The old familiar scenes remain. 

The mountains stand as once they stood, 
Encircling our Jerusalem, 

The radiant skies, the fields, the wood. 

We gather round this festal board, 
With clasp of hand and hearty cheer, 

The long gone years anew recall, 
With now a smile and now a tear. 



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We climbers after earthly fame, 
And better still with honest zeal, 

Intent on grander, loftier aims 
That reach anci grasp the common vveel, 

Survey the journey we have trod, 
With toilsome step and many a halt. 

Crowned with some measure of success. 
Yet flawed, alas, with many a fault. 

Today in sweet forgetfulness 
We wander half a century back. 

And fail to realize how much 

Of manhood's strength and force we lack. 

Not yet in spite of all our years 
Are we prepared to bend the knee. 

And bow before the high behest 
Of Doctor Osler^s stern decree. 

Nor own that we are weaker now 
Than when we struggled for the prize 

That hung so temptingly before, 
That seemed so golden to, our eyes. 

When digging at the ancient roots. 
And conning conic sections' maze, 

We sat with trembling how to put 
Our answers in their fitting phrase. 

Forgive me if I drop a tear, 
And lay the drooping Asphodel 

On Mathematics' sable urn. 

Where I so often fought — and fell. 

Today we stand on College Hill, 

Not bent with age and flecked with gray. 

But stalwart as though fifty years 

Had never crowned us with their bay. 



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We forward look to visions bright, 
To fortune, fame and large success, 

To posts of power and influence, 
The fruit of rigid faithfulness. 

Ah, well, perhaps not quite we gain 
What toil and service promised then, 

But something better comes to us 
In being sfaunch and sturdy men. 

The work we've done, the words we've said, 

The inspiration of our lives. 
These, these will tell on human hearts, 

While faith endures and truth survives. 

To us who still remain — and those 

Whose names are starred on yonder scroll. 

There lives the sacred Brotherhood, 
To last while years and ages roll. 

For they never can be forgot 

Who early fell beside the way. 
Clad in life's armor, strong for fight, 

And valiant for the coming fray. 

Nor those who late have left the field, 

After life's weary race was run, 
Joyous and grateful to receive 

The welcome from their Lord, Well done ! 

Gone from our sight, not from our hearts. 
Their names abide in memory yet, 

And linger like the light that shines 
In western skies when suns have set. 

Time with its ceaseless tides will move. 
To large results for God and man. 

Truth will expand from age to age, 
And ligliten every race and clan. 



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The grandeur of the passing days 
Will be eclipsed by greater light, 

That in its meed shall shine alike 
On shore and sea, by day and night. 

It shall be ours to toil and pray, 

If need, to sacrifice and give, 
To do our best with steadfast aim, 

And chief of all, to grandly live. 

Not we about to yield and die. 
To leave our work but just begun, 

To throw our mailed armor off 
At setting of the evening sun. 

But more than ever j/,?/ to live, 

To breathe on hearts that are to beat 

When these material forms shall rest 
Beneath the clodded valley sweet. 

These fifty years of work, and strife 
Of mind with mind, of brain with brain, 

Shall bring large fruitage to the world. 
And harvest from the scattered grain. 



God bless our own, our native land, 
Home of the brave and loyal free, 

From North to South, from East to West, 
Refuge and shrine of liberty. 

And God our Alma Mater bless. 
And give her years of large increase, 

Still may she shed on all the lands 
The gospel of goodwill and peace. 

God bless the class of " Fifty-five," 

The class that holds our warmest love. 
May sunshine with glad promise gild 
The lives of those that linger still. 
And late may they return above.* 



' Serus in caelum redeas." Horatii Flacci, Car., Liber I, 2. 



Summari? of Statietice. 



Roll of the Class, September, 1851, 

Ayers, Baker, Bennett, Bissell, Boardman, Bridgman, Brown,. 
Caldwell, Choate, Cobb, Colton, Converse, Crowell (C. H.), 
Crowell (J. W.), Derby, Dickinson, Duncan, Dunlap, Evans^ 
Fairchild, Fiske, Fitch, Gibbens, Graves, Hallock, Hardon,. 
Hartwell, Hawley, Houghton, Howard, Howland, Hoyt, 
Hughitt, Jefferds, Jocelyn, Joy, Kelsey, Lane, Lombard, Lord, 
McClung, Melvin, Merrill, Montague (G. L.), Montague (W. L.), 
Moore, Packard, Parsons, Porter, Reynolds, Richardson,. 
Shearer, Singleton, Sprague, Stickney, Strong, Thomas, Wal- 
dron, Washburn, Wheeler, Whitaker, Wilson, Woodworth. 
Total, 63. 

The average age of the class on entering college was 19 
years and 6 months. The oldest member was Woodworth,. 
born Feb. 18, 1826. The youngest member was Derby, born 
June 29, 1835. 

Roll of the Class, August, 1855. 

Bailey, Bell, Bennett, Bissell, Boardman, Bridgman, Brown- 
(F. F.), Brown (S. E.), Buck, Caldwell, Choate, Colton, Cros- 
well, Denison, Derby, Dickinson, Dunlap, Farman, Fiske, 
Fitch, Gilbert, Graves, Hallock, Hardon, Harris, Hart, Hart- 
well, Howard, Hoyt, Hughitt, Jefferds, Jocelyn, Joy, Kelsey,. 
Lord, McClung, Montague (W. L.), Nason, Noerr, Orne, Pack- 
ard, Parsons. Porter, Prentice, Reynolds, Richardson, Single- 
ton, Spinney, Sprague, Strong, Tho-mas, Walton, Washburn, 
Webster, Wilson, Woodworth. Total, 56. 

List of Non-Graduate Members of the Class. 
Arnell, Ayres, Baker, Cobb, Converse, Cooke, Crowell (C. 
H.), Crowell (J. W.), Davis, Darling, Duncan, Evans, Fairchild, 
Gibbs, Gibbens, Hawley, Holland, Houghton, Howland, Hull,. 



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Lane, Lombard, Mattice, Melvin, Merrill, Mixer, Montague 
(G. L.), Moore, Prince, Shearer, Stickney, Waldron, Wheeler, 
Williams, Whitaker. Total, 35. Total membership, 91. 

Of the 63 who entered in September, 1851, 39 graduated. 
Twenty-eight others were connected with the class, of whom 17 
graduated. Of the 35 who left the class, 9 graduated subse- 
quently, Cobb (Dartmouth), Fairchild (Princeton), Gibbens 
(Harvard), Holland (Dartmouth), Mattice (Amherst, '56), Mixer 
.and G. L. Montague (Williams), Stickney (Yale), Whitaker 
Middlebury). 

Roll of the Class after Fifty Years. 

Bailey, Bennett, Boardman, Bridgman, Buck, Caldwell, Col- 
ton, Croswell, Derby, Dunlap, Farman, Fiske, Fitch, Graves, 
Hallock, Harden, Harris, Howard, Jocelyn, Kelsey, Lord, Mc- 
Clung, Montague (W. L.), Noerr, Orne, Packard, Singleton, 
Strong, Washburn, Wilson. Total, 30. 

Non-Graduates. 

Cobb, Cooke, Fairchild, Hull, Lombard, Mattice, Montague 
(G. L.), Wheeler, Whitaker. Total, 9. 

Deaths of Graduates by Decades. 

Four in ist — Gilbert, Hart, Hoyt, Jefferds. 

Three in 2d — Choate, Prentice, Reynolds. 

Three in 3d — Hartwell, Thomas, Walton. 

Eleven in 4th — Bell, Bissell, Brown (F. F.), Brown (S. E.), 
Nason, Porter, Richardson, Spinney, Sprague, Webster, Wood- 
worth. 

Five in 5th — Denison, Dickinson, Hughitt, Joy, Parsons. 

Of the non-graduates, five died while connected with the 
college — Converse, J. W. Crowell, Darling, Hawley, Howland, 
all in 1853, except Crowell, who died July 20, 1855. 



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Appointments and Honors. 

Speakers at the Prize Declamation, Aug. lo, 1852 — Cobb, 
Fairchild, Stickney, Strong. 

Speakers at the Prize Declamation, Aug. 9, 1853 — Kelsey, 
McClung, Montague (W. L.), Washburn. 

Appointments at Commencement, Aug. 9, 1855 — Valedic- 
tory, H. Derby ; Salutatory, \Y. L. Montague ; Philosophical, 
I St, J. L. Graves ; 2d, Asa S. Fiske ; ist class orations, Board- 
man, Caldwell, Choate, Harris, Kelsey, Parsons, Sprague, 
Strong, Washburn; 2d class orations, Bissell, Dickinson, Dun- 
lap, Hardon, Hughitt, Jefferds, Orne, Packard, Thomas ; 3d 
class orations, Bell, F. F. Brown, S. E. Brown, Buck, Denison, 
Farman, Gilbert, Reynolds. 

The preceding thirty appointees at Commencement, with 
Hartwell and Lord, constitute the thirty-two elected to Phi 
Beta Kappa. 

Honorary Degrees. 

LL. I). —Bissell, Farman, Harris, Nason, Washburn, Whitaker. 

D.D. — Bissell, Fiske, \^'ashburn, Whitaker. 

Ph.D. — Harris, Montague, Nason, Orne. 

LL.B. — Bridgman, Lord, McClung, Shearer. 

M. D. — F. F. Brown, Colton, Derby, Hoyt, Nason, Porter, 
Reynolds. 

M. A.— Arnell, Bell, Bennett, Bissell, Bridgman, F. F. Brown, 
S. E. Brown, Croswell, Derby, Dickinson, Farman, Fiske, Gib- 
bens, Harris, Howard, Kelsey, Lord, Merrill, Montague, Nason, 
Noerr, Packard, Prentice, Strong. 



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Professions and Occupations. 





Graduates. 


Non 


-Graduates. 


Total 


Theology, 


22 




5 


27 


Law, 


13 




7 


20 


Medicine, 


6 




4 


10 


Teaching, 


9 




2 


II 


Business, 


4 




8 


12 


Journalism, 
Dentistry, 


I 

I 




I 


2 
I 



Died or unknown, 



Total, 



56 



35 



91 



Number of children of the class, 247. 

Children of 43 graduates, 169 ; average to each family, 3.93. 
Children of 20 non-graduates, 78; average to each family, 3.9. 
Children graduates of Amherst, 9 ; of other colleges, 21. 




ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 

Page 17, line 11. After 1881, read having received tiie appointment 

Sept. 15, 1880. 
Page 34, line 7, Von Graeffe should read von Graefe. 
Page 34, line 20, for seven children read eight children. 
Page 75, line 8, for 28 read 25. 

Page 75, line [5, after N. Y. read Died in Peoria, 111., October i, 1905. 
Page 75. line 22, for OliiLih?a?yBiiildinffx<ic\(\ 300 VVi.scon.sin Avenue. 
Page 75, line 24, insert comma (,) after graduating. 
Page 88, line 7, for 190C' read 1886. 
Page 88, line 8, for but does read but he does. 
Page 88, line 18, before attainments read distinguished. 
Page 92, line 8, insert comma (,) after A. B. 
Page 1 15, line 26, for Martin read IVIartyn. 
Page 134, line 24, for niastadon read mastodon 
Page 136, line 2c, for Domiinnvi read Uominum. 
Page 142. line 22. insert Holland, before Hoyt. 



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